Marike MacDonald is a Canadian landscape artist inspired by the beauty and sacredness of the natural world. Trained at Humber College and through ongoing study with professional artists, she has lived and worked in both Muskoka and southwestern Alberta—two landscapes that deeply shape her acrylic paintings. Her work has been featured in Muskoka Life and Arabella magazine.
Marike MacDonald is a Canadian artist whose work is shaped by a lifelong relationship with the natural world. Raised in rural Southwestern Ontario, she developed an early sensitivity to the quiet drama of meadows, woodlands, and farmland. Her formal training began at Humber College’s Fine Arts Program, where she immersed herself in drawing, painting, sculpture, and printmaking, and discovered the legacy of Canadian landscape painting and the Group of Seven. She has continued to refine her practice through ongoing study with professional artists.
For more than three decades, MacDonald lived in Muskoka, drawing inspiration from the same lakes, forests, and rugged terrain that influenced Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven. Now based in southwestern Alberta, her work reflects the expansive skies and powerful presence of the Rocky Mountains. Across these shifting landscapes, her paintings explore the beauty, fragility, and sacredness of the natural world.
Marike’s work has been featured in Muskoka Life (July 2019) and Arabella magazine (October 2020).
