As a professional graphic designer and artist, Doranne Alden's preferred painting medium is watercolour. While also using different media, she enjoys working on various subjects and is mostly inspired by the colour of the composition rather than the subject matter itself. She was born in 1963 on the island of Malta and moved to Germany in 1996 and lived there for almost 7 years. She studied Art for a number of years at the Polytechnic School in Malta and also took various short courses in Graphic Design and Interior Design. Her work experience as a graphic designer spans several years with various advertising agencies and eventually, before moving overseas, she ran her own advertising company. Whie working as a freelance designer, she also published photographic calendars, posters and postcards on Malta. As an artist Doranne Alden was always an active member of different art groups, both in Malta and later Germany. This led her to participate in several collective exhibitions in her home country and overseas. During the years spent in Germany, she held drawing and watercolour classes for adults. On her return to Malta she spent a year teaching children in a private school and has recently recommenced teaching adult drawing classes. In 2006 Doranne Alden won first prize in the Watercolour Section in a competition organised by the Society of Arts, Manufacture and Commerce, in Malta (of which she is a member). Exhibitions 1990 Malta International Trade Fair Exhibition 1991 Women`s Collective Art Exhibition - Malta Chamber of Commerce 1991 Photographic Exhibiton (collective) held at Ta`Cenc Hotel Gozo 1994 Art Exhibition in Victoria, Gozo 1994 Art Exhibition - National Heritage Association (Din L`Art Helwa)- Malta 1995 Cathedral Museum Art Exhibition - Mdina - Malta 1995 Local Council Exhibition - Swieqi - Malta 1996 Art Exhibition - National Heritage Association (Din L`Art Helwa) - Malta 1996 Collective Society of Art and Manufacture Annual Art Exhibition - Malta 1996 Collective Exhibition at Murnau Townhall - Germany 1997 First Solo Exhibition at `Gasthof Zur Post` in Wessoburn - Germany 1998 Joint Exhibition at Townhall in Tutzing - Germany 1999 Agenda 21 - Collective Exhibition at townhall in Tutzing - Germany 1999 Starnberger Townhall Collective Exhibition - Germany 2000 Society of Art and Manufacture Malta 2001 Starnberger Townhall Collective - Germany 2001 Second Solo - Golden Tulip - Art Hotel, Vienna - Austria 2001 Silver Palette - Malta 2001 International Trade Fair - Malta 2001 Heidelberg Scholosswienstube Collective of Maltese Artists - Germany 2001 Collective Art Exhibition of Maltese Artists, Adelaide - Australia 2002 Salesians Collecitive Exhibition - Marsa - Malta 2005 The Mystery of Easter - Salesian Brothers Sliema - Malta 2005 VeeGeeBee Summer Exhibition 2005 VeeGeeBee Christmas Exhibition 2006 Silver Palette Competition - Valletta - Malta 2006 VeeGeeBee Summer Exhibition 2006 34U June Exhibition 2006 International Trade Fair - Collective Exhibition - Malta 2006 34U Exhibition - Sliema Malta 2006 34U Heritage Malta Valletta 2006 Rotta Ta'l-Arti Mdina Malta 2007 6th National Arts Competition and Exhibition - Naxxar Malta 2007 September Art Route Exhibition (Rotta Ta'l-Arti)- Mdina 2008 February - March - New Faces Exhibition - 2008 2008 12 September Joint Exhibition with Watercolourist Albert Caruana 1st December - Fireworks of Colour from Malta, Solo Exhibition in Passau Germany, 2008 Collective UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS: Easter - Solo Exhibition at German Maltese Circle - Valletta

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