Painting by Marlene Gardner: a sunset over a dark landscape tangled with pale, wire-like scribbles and pools of water
War
Painting by Marlene Gardner: a path winding through autumn trees in gold and brown
Call my Name Aloud
Painting by Marlene Gardner: wind-blown golden trees against a pale blue sky
First Journey
Painting by Marlene Gardner: standing stones under a full moon, with a loch and hills behind
Lost - Who am I?
Painting by Marlene Gardner: heavy grey clouds over a dark sea, with distant mountains
Marooned
Painting by Marlene Gardner: a sandy cove with turquoise sea, pine trees on the cliffs
The Beach
Painting by Marlene Gardner: a path leading into a dark conifer forest under a pale sky
Winter
Painting by Marlene Gardner: tall trees silhouetted against an orange sunset sky above dark ground
Hope
Painting by Marlene Gardner: a column of white light rising from a dark ground, with small figures reaching upwards within it
Holocaust by Bullet
Painting by Marlene Gardner: standing stones beside a loch at sunset, with dark hills beyond
How did I get here?
Painting by Marlene Gardner: a tree with pale, twisting branches beside water, with brown hills behind
For the most wonderful Grandmother
Seascape painting by Marlene Gardner
Untitled seascape
Painting by Marlene Gardner: a rough sea with white-capped waves under a cloudy sky, a headland in the distance
I will wear white

Marlene Gardner

Poems & paintings from a life by the sea

Painting by Marlene Gardner: a rough sea with white-capped waves under a cloudy sky, a headland in the distance
I will wear white
Featured poem

I will wear white

Now I am old without you I will not wear purple, I will wear white. My hair will be a cloud the colour of the sun.
Read & listen - in Marlene's voice
The poems

Around sixty poems, each with a recording read aloud by Marlene herself.

 The paintings

Seascapes, landscapes and forests - including her beloved Isle of Skye.

 Her life

From the Exeter stage to the easel: the story of an artist who found her voice twice.