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framed dimensions: 49.5 x 69.5 cm
signed and dated lower left
Donald Morison Buyers was part of a generation of Scottish artists who emerged in the post-war period with a keen sensitivity to both the abstract possibilities of landscape and the expressive qualities of paint itself. A graduate of Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen, Buyers developed a distinctive visual language marked by subtle tonal shifts, formal restraint, and a lyrical connection to place. White Hill exemplifies this mature sensibility: trees, hillside, and sky are distilled into a soft, harmonious arrangement. Typical of the era, Buyers uses pigment with quiet tactility, softly pushed across the board in delicate layers, while slender black lines lend a gentle vertical rhythm. Horizontal bands float through the composition, less rigid than drawn, evoking a landscape remembered more than observed.
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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