MEET MARILYN

Using a bold and gutsy watercolour style, Marilyn paints images inspired by her home surroundings and experiences on the South Shore of Nova Scotia and on Cape Breton Island. Seascapes, landscapes, the derelict, the abandoned, the forgotten and the often-overlooked repeatedly show up in Marilyn's portfolio.

She will often remind her students, “You can find beauty in anything if you take time to “see’”.

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Since graduating from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, NS (1983),

Marilyn has held several successful solo and group exhibitions throughout Canada.

Her paintings can be found in several private and corporate collections throughout the world, including the Charlottetown CIBC on Prince Edward Island and The Alexander Graham Bell Museum in Baddeck, Nova Scotia.

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One of Marilyn's career highlights came when she was approached by the Alexander Graham Bell Museum Association to create a series of watercolours depicting the Bells’ life at Beinn Bhreagh, Cape Breton.

Using historical black and white photographs, her sketches of Beinn Bhreagh and studying displays and artifacts, she created an exhibition called “Bell in Colour”. Kellough was deeply honoured by the opening remarks from the Board Chair of the Alexander Graham Bell Museum Association and descendants of A.G. Bell.

A year later she was nominated for the prestigious Nova Scotia Lieutenant Governor Master Art Award.

Kellough is also proud to have been featured in Dee Appleby’s book, from LAND and SEA, Nova Scotia’s Contemporary Landscapes Artists(2009).

Today, Marilyn continues to paint images that strike a nostalgic response and is opened to embracing new projects.