David Donaldson is widely acknowledged as one of Scotland's finest and most daring painters. He has exhibited in New York, Canada, France and South Africa as well as in Britain, and his work can be found in many important public and private collections. This work, by art critic W. Gordon Smith, tells of Donaldson's time as a teacher, the subjects of his portraits, what his work has meant to him, and how the Glasgow School of Art influenced his work. The book contains 100 colour examples of Donaldson's work.