SCOTTISH SPIRIT
As the artist Henri Matisse once said, “creativity takes courage”, something the British painter Donald McIntyre (1923–2009) must have heeded to when, at the age of 40, he left his well-established career as a dentist to pick up his brushes and paint for a living. His love of art, however, was engrained long before, when, as a child he learnt to paint.
Despite being born in Yorkshire, he
