Doranne Alden

Doranne Alden is a professional graphic designer and artist, and her preferred painting media is ecoline and watercolour. Her works have appeared in several exhibitions in Europe, both solo and collective over the last 17 years.

She has also published photographic calendars, posters and postcards on Malta.

Doranne Alden was born in 1963 on the island of Malta and moved to Germany in 1996 and lived there until 2002.
She studied Art for a number of years, at the Polytechnic School in Malta. At the same time she also frequented a painting group run British ex-pat, Joy Micallef Farndell. While completing her Art related studies in Malta, she worked as a designer with various advertising agencies and eventually, before moving overseas, she ran her own advertising company. During the years spent in Germany, she held drawing and watercolour classes for adults. She was also an active member of an abstract, painting group organised by a German artist in Tutzing. This also led Alden to have 3 successful, solo exhibitions, one in Austria and two in Germany and also to participate in joint and collective exhibitions there.

Many of Alden`s paintings are now in private collections, banks, foundations in Europe, North America, Australia, and South Africa. One painting that holds pride of place, is hanging in the foyer of the Munich International School, Percha, Bavaria.

Since her return to Malta, Doranne Alden taught art at a local private school, and carried on painting while partitcipating in several local collective exhibitions and holding other solo exhibitions.

In 2006 Doranne Alden, won first prize in the Watercolour Section in the Silver Palette Competition, which is organised every 2 years, by the Society of Arts, Manufacture and Commerce, Malta.

Doranne Alden is the daughter of a local, well known, Maltese watercolourist, Albert Caruana.

EXHIBITIONS LIST

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 Malta Heritage Headquarters - Valletta - Malta
2006 Art Walk Round Mdina Exhibition - Malta
2007 Malta Trade Fair Exhibition
2007 Rotta ta'l Arti Mdina Malta
2008 February - New Faces at Gallery G, Lija, Malta.2008 - 2008 - 12 September - First Joint Exhibition in Malta - along with Watercolourist Mr Albert Caruana - at Gallery G - Lija Malta
2008 Dec Solo Exhibition - Passau - Germany
2008 DEC Collective 'the last five years' at Gallery G
2009 Solo Exhibition - March - 'Glimpses' German Circle - Valletta Malta
2009 MAY Joint exhibition - COLLECTIONS - Albert J. Caruana & daughter Doranne Alden at Le Meridien Hotel, Balluta Bay, MALTA
2009 Filigree - Tradition & Innovation - Exhibition of Maltese Filigree Jewellery
A Collobration of Artists along with Filigree Artists Kevin Attard & Charmaine Gerada October 8 – November 11 2009
Palazzo Castellania, Upper Merchants Street, Valletta
2010 - 9th January - 31 st January E9-2-E99 collective exhibition at Exhibitions Hall - Gozo
2010 - Collective May - Unity in Diversity - Palazzo De la Salle, Valletta - Malta
2010/11 - Solo - Dec - Feb - Intercontinental Hotel - Bay Street - St.Julian's - Malta
2011 Girgenti Palace - open weekend exhibition
2011 - Collective Exhibition - Eros & Kenosis - Cavallieri Hotel - St. Julian's
2011 - Annual Exhibition for Members of Society of Art, Manufacture and Commerce - Valletta
2011 - Collective - Rotta Tal-Arti - Mdina - Malta

Current Exhibitions
2011 - Collective - Notte Bianca @ Vee Gee Bee - Valletta