Many of the paintings included have not been exhibited at Lemon Street Gallery, and I apologise if all of the works are not for sale. I’m hoping you will see his exhibition as a small celebration, to mark the ten years since his death on 13 September 2008, and a homage to a career which spanned more than forty years, that was deeply rooted in his training at Glasgow School of Art. I would like to thank my mother Nadia, my brothers Raymond and Martin and my sister Nicola for lending me paintings from their private collections.

By way of tribute to both my father and to the GSA I managed to borrow MacDonald’s easel from my mother. As I understand it, my father along with his artist friends rescued it one night from the Mackintosh Building’s rubbish pile circa 1960. It would have been…