Marcelle was born in Houston, Texas, USA but has lived in Calgary, Alberta the majority of her life. An apprentice of Master Karl Lengauer of Avanti Art and Glass Calgary, Marcelle worked as a Stained Glass artist for 18 years. A self taught fine artist until 1990, her first instructor in watercolour , was Joan Fedoroshyn. In 1996 Marcelle started exhibiting her work at La Flamme and Peters Gallery and in 1998 was juried into the Calgary art association The Group. In 2014, she was juried into the Federation of Canadian Artists. She is an active member exhibiting in Calgary and Vancouver. In 2002 she became a Traditional Chinese Medical Doctor. Art has been her “Rock of Gibraltar”.