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Exhibitions / Ten Years of Modern Masters
  • Donald Morison Buyers

Corn Stooks, Aberdeenshire, c.1962

oil on board
H:73cm W:99cm

Corn Stooks, Aberdeenshire of 1962 owes something to the Modern British period, to Nash, Christopher Wood, Gillies and perhaps Robert Henderson Blyth, who was by then living in Aberdeen. But more, it seems a heartfelt response to the autumn harvest, with a deep red rich light on the landscape. Donald Buyers was born in 1930 in Aberdeen where he attended the Grammar School and then Gray’s School of Art after which he assisted his tutor Robert Sivell in the murals at the University Union in Schoolhill. His was a quiet life, well lived, throughout which family and painting were his twin loves. A honeymoon in Paris turned into an extended stay and the School of Paris was always present in his work. Back in Aberdeen, he began to teach in schools: Robert Gordon’s and eventually as a visiting lecturer at Gray’s, but he never stopped working and exhibiting.

Read more in our Modern Masters publication here, which features essays, picture notes and provenance.

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Corn Stooks, Aberdeenshire.

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    Donald Morison Buyers

    Born: 1930
    Place of Birth: Aberdeen
    Died: 2003

    Donald Buyers was born in 1930 in Aberdeen where he attended the Grammar School and then Gray’s School of Art after which he assisted his tutor Robert Sivell in the murals at the University Union in Schoolhill. His was a quiet life, well lived, throughout which family and painting were his twin loves. A honeymoon in Paris turned into an extended stay and the School of Paris was always present in his work. Back in Aberdeen he began to teach in schools: Robert Gordon’s and eventually as a visiting lecturer at Gray’s, but he never stopped working and exhibiting.

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