Marion Thomson was born in 1958. She studied art at the Glasgow School of Art and Glasgow University, graduating in 1981.

After leaving art school Marion Thomson subsequently worked as a freelance costume designer in theatre, film and television, while continuing with her paintings.

Inspiration for Marion Thomson contemporary paintings is often the Scottish West Coast and Outer Hebrides. As she says:” The unique qualities of the Scottish landscape - its remoteness, its sense of rugged endurance contrasted with the delicacy of certain shorelines, the physical isolation of the people and their homes - all create a powerful drama that draws me back again and again.”

Marion Thomson's contemporary paintings focus on specific moments. She seeks to capture combinations of light and weather, time of day or season playing on the landscape, fleeting changes that create the sense of space and the atmosphere of places.

Marion's use of colour, in subtly expressive ways, creates a blend of romantic grandeur with the realities of sea and rain and clouds and sun. This combined with the depth and luminosity of colour in her contemporary landscapes paintings produces timeless and enduring art works.