Mavis Thomson was born in Omagh, Co.Tyrone and has lived most of her life in Enniskillen. Mainly self-taught - paints mostly in watercolour but also makes sculptural constructions out of driftwood. Over the past decade she has been making sculptural constructions/ assemblages out of driftwood yielded from the sea - occasionally accompanied by verse - or particularly painted in oil.

Elected:
Ulster Watercolour Society, the Watercolour Society of Ireland, the Ulster Society of Women Artists, founder member of the Turner Society, London. Has twice undertaken residencies at Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annaghmakerrig. Winner of 'IONTAS' Sculpture Award 1998 and 1999. Elizabeth Morrow Award Ulster Society Women Artists 2003.

Represented numerous collections - amongst others:
Fermanagh County Museum, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, The Derek Hill Collection, Donegal, University of Limerick, RUA Diploma Collection and Masumi Foundation, Tokyo, Japan.