Tom Mabon was born in 1956 in Kirkcaldy, Fife and trained at Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen from 1974 to 1978. He has lived on the Black Isle since 1985, and his paintings are a documentation of the shifting seasons and wildlife he has witnessed there. He has won many awards since graduating including the Royal Glasgow Institute Armour Award in 2012 and a major prize at the 7th Cleveland International Drawing Biennale in 1985, and his works are held in numerous public and private collections.