 In 1961 she founded the ins-cape group, which subsequently became the Society for Art of Imagination.Marlin's paintings typically feature visionary and psychic subjects, often with scriptural themes akin to the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism.One of her best-known paintings 'The Rod' (shown right) won the 1974 "Visions of the Future" competition and was greatly admired by J G Ballard, who later commissioned her to reproduce the Belgian surrealist Paul Delvaux's two 'lost' paintings 'The Rape' and 'The Mirror'.