Donald McIntyre spent his childhood in northwest Scotland. Both his early experiences of the Scottish landscape and the artists he encountered there seem to have influenced him throughout his life. He always returned to coastal scenes of the British Isles, particularly in Scotland and Wales, and he developed a palette and painterly approach based on the tradition of the Scottish Colourists* and their followers, Francis Cadell among them.

Although Donald McIntyre, a gifted natural draftsman, had painted from his youth he trained as a dentist. Yet while studying at the Glasgow Dental Hospital, he attended the evening classes at the nearby Glasgow School of Art*. He later served in the army and became an Education Health Officer. At 40,...