One of Marlene's seascapes Seascape painting by Marlene Gardner: a wide sandy beach with rocks under a blue, cloud-swept sky

Marlene Gardner

Poems & paintings from a life by the sea

Beach painting paired with the poem Footprints
Untitled seascape
Featured poem

Footprints

There they are, my footprints. Visible proof of my existence of my mortality of being here. Yet in the blink of an eye, they are gone, no longer there.
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.