Marie Manon Corbeil is an established Canadian contemporary artist whose distinctive work has built an international following over a career spanning more than 15 years.
Based in Calgary and originally from Montréal, Marie has sold more than 1,000 original artworks, with her paintings now held in private collections across 23 countries. Her work has been exhibited internationally in Paris, London and Vienna, as well as in numerous exhibitions across Canada.
Over the years, Marie has developed a strong international collector base, with hundreds of works acquired through leading international art platforms as well as directly from her studio and galleries.
It is an extraordinary journey for an artist who never set out to become an artist at all.
Between sadness and hope, there was art.
Marie began painting during one of the most difficult periods of her life. At first, painting wasn’t a career. It was simply a place where she could express what she couldn’t always put into words.
One painting became another. Then another.
Eventually, something that had begun as a way of finding her way back to herself became a full-time artistic career—and her paintings began finding their way into homes around the world.
Today, Marie’s work is recognized for its expressive colour, intuitive marks, distinctive women and unmistakable sense of storytelling.
But success has never changed the reason she paints.
She paints about life.
About resilience and vulnerability. About women and dignity. About friendship, family and community. About those moments when we need one another, and about finding humour, hope and beauty even when life isn’t particularly beautiful.
Women with their own stories
Women have become an important part of Marie’s artistic language.
They aren’t perfect women—and they aren’t supposed to be.
They can be strong, eccentric, vulnerable, confident, funny, quiet or complicated. Some want to be noticed. Others are perfectly happy standing somewhere in the background, surrounded by their garden.
Marie doesn’t explain everything about them.
She gives them a beginning and lets the viewer imagine the rest.
That freedom extends throughout her practice. Moving between figurative work and abstraction, Marie paints intuitively, building layers of colour, marks, fragments, figures and sometimes words until the painting begins to reveal its own direction.
She believes a painting doesn’t need to tell everyone the same story.
It simply needs to make you feel something.
From a Calgary studio to 23 countries
Marie’s work has been exhibited internationally and has received awards and media recognition in Canada and abroad. Her artistic journey has been featured on Canadian television and radio, and she is a juried member of the Women’s Art Association of Canada.
Yet perhaps the most meaningful measure of her career is much simpler.
More than 1,000 times, someone has looked at one of Marie’s original paintings and decided they wanted to live with it.
Those paintings now hang in homes and collections across 23 countries.
For Marie, that connection between artist, painting and collector remains one of the most rewarding parts of being an artist.
Art doesn’t have to stay on the wall
In recent years, Marie’s creative world has expanded into wearable art.
Using elements from her original paintings, she creates new compositions specifically for clothing and accessories. They aren’t simply reproductions of paintings. They are another expression of the same artistic world—colourful, individual and a little unexpected.
It allows art to leave the wall and become part of someone’s everyday life.
Still curious
After more than 15 years as a professional artist, international exhibitions and more than 1,000 original artworks sold, Marie still approaches the studio with curiosity.
She experiments. She changes her mind. She paints over things. She follows unexpected ideas.
And she continues to believe that some of the most interesting things happen when we don’t have everything figured out.
Life isn’t perfect.
Neither is art.
And perhaps that’s exactly where the interesting part begins.
