Born Brussels, Belgium
2003 California College of the Arts (CCA), San Francisco, MFA painting
1988 Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, Licence en Droit
 SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 The Sea Ranch Lodge, CA  

2024 Pyrdek-Hasz Building, Mill Valley CA  "In Search of California" 

          Two person show with John Bucklin

          OCN Culture, San Anselmo, CA "Regarder l'Océan"

2023  VrijdagMarkt Art Projects, Antwerp, Belgium "Variations on Paper"
         (Pop Up exhibit with Marie Anne Truffino)
        The Sea Ranch Lodge, CA  Mer~terre
2022 The Coastal Studio Project, The Sea Ranch, CA
2021 LyndonDesign Gallery, The Sea Ranch,CA  
        "We will always have the Ocean."
2020 George Lawson Gallery, Mill Valley CA "Conversation"
        (2 person show with Jenny Bloomfield)
        San Marco Gallery at Dominican University, San Rafael, CA "Reverence"
        Ground, Tiburon, CA  "La Mer"
2019 Great Highway Gallery, San Francisco, CA  "inner~outer nature"
        Erica Tanov, Larkspur, CA  " Summer Days"
        Blue Mountain Gallery, New York City, NY "Woodland"
2018 Fourth Wall, Oakland, CA  "She Says"
        Erica Tanov, Los Angeles, CA. " Inner Nature"
2017 Throckmorton Theatre, Mill Valley CA "Girl Talk" works on paper
        GéryArt Gallery, Namur, Belgium Figurative works on paper
2016 Great Highway Gallery, San Francisco, CA "Entre Fleurs et Mer"
        505 Montgomery Art Program, San Francisco  "Beautiful Disasters"
2011 Palazzo Rinaldi, Noepoli, Italy/ MV Inn, CA  "A Week in Basilicata"
2010  Sidney Larson Gallery, Columbia College, MO   Works on paper
2008  OHanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA  “Summer Days”
2005 HANGART, San Francisco, “Ordinary Girls”
2002 HANGART, SF, “Dear Girls”
         Long-Pollack Gallery, CCA, SF, “Ceci n’est pas une fille”
1999 HANGART, SF, “Garde-Robes”
1997 At the Top, Mill Valley, CA, “Ciel et Terre”
1995 Mill Valley Public Librairy, Selection by the MV Art Commission
 GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 Maison des Arts, Brussels (Schaerbeek), Belgium "Encore et Encore, rituels d'artistes"

         Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA  "Cut, Paste, Create" The Art of Collage"

         Earth, Air, Fire and Water, Marblehead Arts, MA

         Di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, CA  "True North"

2023 Blue Mountain Gallery, New York, NY "The Long View"
        Green Kill Gallery, Kingston, NY "The Long View"
        The Sea Ranch Lodge, CA "Women's History Month"
        Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA Art Kala 2023

        Blue Mountain Gallery, New York, NY "Once in a Blue Moon"

        LyndonDesign Gallery, the Sea Ranch, CA "In the Gallery"

        Red Dot Miami, FL  Jen Tough Gallery
2022 The Museum at The Cliff, San Francisco, CA the Naiad Room
        The Great Highway Gallery, San Francisco, CA  "Blue Wall"
        Blue Mountain Gallery, NY, NY "From the Studio"
        Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY
        @ArtistsTakeAction (Ukraine) Berkeley, CA
2021 Kala Art Institute, Berkeley CA  Art Kala 2021
        SFMOMA Artists Gallery, CA  Final Closing Sale 
2020 Blue Mountain Gallery, New York, NY gallery group show
        Diablo Valley College, Pleasnt Hill CA "Fires"
        Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, CA Wall2Wall
        @ArtistsTakeAction, Berkeley CA 
2019 Piedmont Center for the Arts, CA Annual Exhibition (2nd prize)
        SFMOMA Artists Gallery, CA Small Works
        NIAD Richmond, CA "There is California and then there is Reality"
        Roving Venue, The Mill, Healdsburg, CA 
        Institute for Advancing Uncertainty, SF, CA "Despot Wives"
        Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, CA "Ofrandes"
        Fourth Wall, Oakland, CA "Face to Face"
 2018 AWD, San Rafael, CA  "After Nature"       
        Blue Mountain Gallery, NY, NY  "The Paint Goes On!"
        Sonoma State University Art Gallery, Rohnert park, CA 
           "North Bay Fires Anniversary Exhibition"
        The POSTCARD Collective, AZ "New Traditions"
        SFMOMA Artists Gallery, SF, CA " Small Works"
2017 LA SartUp Fair, Hollywood, CA "Stage Fright"
        The Great Highway Gallery, SF "The Morning After" 
        Art Market San Francisco, CA The Great Highway Gallery
        GéryArt Gallery, Namur, Belgium  Works on Paper
        Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA "Sweet n Low"
        Blue Mountain Gallery, New York, NY  Summer Exhibition
        Laconia Gallery, Boston, MA  "Nasty Women"
        Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY "Think Big"
        GéryArt Gallery, Namur Belgium "20 ans de passion"
        Berkeley Art Center, CA Here and Now
2016 The Great Highway, SF CA "Differing Feathers"
        Fourth Wall, Oakland CA "Would"
        The Mills Building, San Francisco, CA " Bay Area Painters"
        Blue Mountain Gallery, NY, NY  Juried Exhibition ( Stanley Lewis)
        Sebastopol Arts Center, CA  "Water Works" 
        Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA  "Avant Garden"
        Richmond Art Center, CA  "Our Town" 
        Blue Mountain Gallery, New York, NY "Oranges no Oranges"
        OHanlon Center for the Arts, CA "Bay Area Women Artists"
2015 Marin Moca, Novato, CA Fall National Drawing Exhibition 
        Kala Institute, Berkeley CA  On View "Voices"
        AWD, San Rafael, CA  " Fire and Water" 
        The Great Highway, San Francisco, CA "We all live under the sea"
        Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, CA "Everybody's Ocean"
        AWS, Sophie Héger Gallery, Brussels, Belgium "WallFlowers"
        SFMoma Artists Gallery, San Francisco, Benefit Sale 
        Southern Exposure, San Francisco "Equilix" 
        OHanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA "Composing Chaos" 
        Oceanna Art Gallery, Pacifica, CA "Coastal Wood"
2014 Berkeley Art Center, CA "Collect!"
        Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA 50/50 (J. Fisher)
        White Walls, SF, CA Hospitality House Art Auction
        Studio 110 Projects, Sausalito, CA  "Red: a one night stand"
        AWS, Sophie Héger Gallery, Brussels, Belgium 
2013 Diablo Valley College Art Gallery, Pleasant Hill  "Hey Everybody"
        Bergelli Gallery, Larkspur, CA  "New Voices New Visions"
        SFMOMA Artists Gallery, CA  "Lure: Bay Area Artists Explore the Sea"
        Oceana Art Gallery, Pacifica, CA  "SURF"
2012 Wiels, Brussels, RTBF/La Collection (Preselection Exhibition)
        Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA  "Silver Era"
        Gualala Arts Center, Gualala, CA  "The May Show"
        SFMOMA Artists Gallery, CA  Annual Warehouse Sale
        Bozar, Brussels, RTBF/La Collection
2011 Ampersand, San Francisco, CA "Walking On thin Ice"
        Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA  Spring Open House
        Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA  Fall open House

        Palazzo Rinaldi, Noepoli, Italy "Residents Open House"
2010 475 Miller, Mill Valley CA L. Bersamina, T. Bolles, Marie Van Elder
         Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito , CA  Fall Open House
         Marin MOCA, Novato, CA “Private Eyes” 
         San Jose ICA, Monotype Marathon XXII
         SFMoma Artists Gallery, SF, CA  17th Annual Warehouse Sale
2009 Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA “Statewide Drawing
          and Print  Exhibition”
        College of Marin Fine Arts Gallery CA. “Rock, Scissors, Paper, Glue” 
        O’Hanlon Center For The Arts, Mill Valley, CA “Bay Area Women Artists” 
        Dominican University of California, San Rafael, CA, “Painting Large” 
         Root Division, San Francisco, CA  “Family Pictures” 
         SFMOMA Artists Gallery, SF, CA, 16tth Annual Warehouse Sale
         Columbia College, Columbia, MO “Paper In Particular”-
              (Best of show award)
2008 Marin MOCA, Novato, CA, “PaperWORKS” 
         Long Beach Island Foundation, Loveladies, NJ, “Works of Art on Paper” 
         Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT, “Painting as Presence” 
         Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA, “Arts On Fire XII” 
         Dolby Chadwick Gallery, SF, Hospitality House 23rd Annual Auction
         Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA, “Close Calls
               (Tournesol  finalist)
         Marin Civic Center Galleries, San Rafael, CA, Marin Arts Council 
2007 Cuesta College Art Gallery, San Luis Obispo, CA, “Corpus"
        Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA -Summer Open House
         AFF New York, NY, Julie Nester Gallery
         ICA San Jose, CA, Monotype Marathon
         Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA, Bay Area Juried Exhibition
         San Francisco Studio School, SF, CA, “Equivalents”
2006 O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA, “Is Dada Dead?” 
         Busdori, B.Hallard Project Space, Tokyo, Japan, “Suitcase”
         Arlington Center for the Arts, Arlington, MA, “Little Women”
         Marin Society of Artists, Ross, CA , 2006 National Exhibition.
         SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA “Finding the Figure”
         Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA, “See Jane Run”                          
         Julie Nester Gallery, Park City, UT, “Figures”
2005 Oakland Art Gallery, Bay Area Currents 
         San Jose ICA, XII Monotype Marathon
         Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA, Marin Artists
         Obsolete, Venice Beach, CA, “Private Drama”
2004 ICA, San Jose, 24th Annual Fall Art Auction
        Bekeley Art Center, 21st Annual Exhibition
         Soho20-Chelsea, New York, Tenth Annual International
         Exhibition of Women’s Art
         Andrea Schwartz Gallery, SF, 19th Hospitality House Auction
         Sebastopol Center for the Arts, “Human Form”
2003 ICA, San Jose,”the Legacy of Inez Storer”
         Andrea Schwartz Gallery, 18th Annual Hospitality House Auction
         CCA, MFA 2003 Graduation Show, SF
         WORKS, San Jose, “New California Masters”
2001 HANGART, SF, “Go Figure”
1998 HANGART, SF, “Gallery Artists”
1996 Robert Green Fine Arts, Mill Valley, CA, “Fresh Paint II”
1995 Marin Civic Center, San Rafael, CA, “Landscape in Marin”
1994 San Francisco Women Gallery, “California Artists”
         Artisans Gallery, Mill Valley, “The Human Figure”
         Marin Theatre, Mill Valley, “Keely & Du”
         Fort Mason Art Center, San Francisco
1993 M. H. Memorial de Young Museum, San Francisco, Works by Museum  Teachers
1992  Somar Gallery, San Francisco, “Selected Works by CCSF Students”
 PUBLICATIONS

Mark Makers Quarterly,  California's Rural Arts and Artists, Sonoma, CA

Encore et Encore, Rituels d'Artistes, Maison des Arts, Brussels, Belgium, 2024

The Long View, Blue Mountain Gallery, New York, NY, 2023

Canvas Collectie/Collection RTBF 2012 Borgerhoff & Lamberigts
Studio Visit (The Open Studio Press) 2010   vol 12 (Juror: Dina Deitsch)
Studio Visit (The Open Studios Press), 2009, vol 5 (Juror: M. Klein)

Suddenly, Out of a Long Sleep, Lowell Jaeger, Arctos Press, 2009
New American Paintings (Open Studio Press), 2006 Pacific Coast, vol.61 (Juror: C. Butler)

San Francisco Homes, teNeues, Loft Publications, 2003
New American Paintings, MFA 2003 (Juror: Lawrence Rinder)
New American Paintings, MFA 2001 (Juror: Lisa Phillips)
 BIBLIOGRAPHY

Pierre Emptinne, Rituels d'Artistes à la Maison des Arts, Culture et Démocratie, 29 Mars 2024

Virginie de Borchgrave, Encore et Encore, Keer op Keer, Quovadisart 26 Février 2024

Jean Marie Wynants, Encore et Encore, l'art de la répétition, Le Soir Culture 12 Mars 2024

Fanny Lacrosse, Par Ouî Dire Encore et Encore, Façon de Voir Rtbf 14 Mars 2024

Danièle Theys, Encore et Encore Histoire de Voir, RCF 12 mars 2024

Independent Coast Observer, Splash "Oil Collages by Marie Van Elder, October 7, 2021
Sam Whiting, Ocean paintings for gallery near ocean beach, SF Chronicle, August 24,2016
Larry Groff, Painting Perceptions, Review of Blue Mountain Gallery Group Show (juried by Stanley Lewis)
Kenneth Baker, Galleries, SF Gate, Feb 12, 2011
Lee Sutter, Musing on the Human Figure, Central Coast Living, Sept 29, 2007
Kate True, Little Women, Contemporary Artists Envision Girls and Their Worlds, 2006
N. Nataraj, See Jane Run, Artweek July/August 2006
N. Magnabosco, L’arte e le bambine: una storia da ricostruire, o forso da inventare?, Arte e Societa, 2006
I. Westbrook, Bay Area Currents, Artweek 2005
 RESIDENCIES
2024 Arquetopia, Puebla, Mexico (postponed)

         Chateau d'Arquevaux, France (postponed)
2017 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT 
2015 BigCi, Bilpin, Australia
         Daraja Academy, Nanyuki, Kenya
2011 Palazzo Rinaldi, Noepoli, Italy
2010-11 Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA  (affiliate)

WORKSHOPS WITH CHILDREN

Equipes St Michel Foi et Lumière, Lourdes, France 1981-82

Art Truck Program (K-12), M.H. de Young Museum San Francisco, CA 1992-93

Drawbridge San Rafael CA 1994

Peaceable Kingdom Montessori, Mill Valley CA (prer k) 1995-98

Lycée Francais La Pérouse, Corte Madera, CA (K-5)  2000-2007

Daraja Academy, Nanyuki,  Kenya (high school) 2015

Art for Recovery, USCF San Francisco 2016

Austin Creek, Santa Rosa, CA (6th garde) 2022

La Maison des Arts, Brussels, Belgium 2024

Valley Vista, Petaluma, CA (3r grade) 2024