Mabel Dawson

Mabel Dawson (13 October 1887 – 1965) was a Scottish artist who painted a wide variety of subjects, including animals and birds, in both watercolour and tempera.

Biography Dawson was born in Edinburgh and studied at the Edinburgh College of Art before continuing her artistic training in London at the school of animal painting run by William Frank Calderon in Kensington. She returned to Edinburgh, where she lived for the majority of her life and maintained a studio, first at 130 George Street and then, from 1943 at Palmerston Place. Dawson was also considered skilled at embroidery and undertook decorative work.

Dawson was a prolific exhibitor showing over ninety works at both the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts and the Royal Scottish Watercolour Society during her career. Newport Museum and Art Gallery hold examples of her work.