Doranne Alden 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, under Joseph Mallia, at the Polytechnic School in Msida, Malta and also took various short courses in Graphic Design and Interior Design. At the same time she also frequented a painting group run by 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 along with a partner. 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 German artist Frau Renate Botzenhardt in Tutzing. (In the same town where the artist lived.) This also led Alden to have 2 successful, solo Exhibitions, one in Austria and one in Germany and also to participate in joint and collective exhibitions there.

Many of Alden`s paintings are now in private collections 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.

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.

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Studied Art at Polytechnic of Malta