Robert Macdonald
Artist and Author

Books and Paintings

Robert Macdonald has divided his life between Journalism and painting, frequently giving up one for the other. He trained as a journalist on the New Zealand Herald in Auckland, and later studied painting and printmaking at the Central School of Art in London. During the 1960s he worked in Fleet Street as Commonwealth Correspondent for the Scotsman, and took a specialist interest in the progress of African independence movements. For a period in the I970's he was Chief Diplomatic Correspondent for the Central Office of Information, travelling widely overseas in delegations led by Britain's Foreign Secretaries. He gave up this work to do postgraduate studies in painting at the Royal College of Art in 1976.

Since then he has worked in art schools and has continued to paint and to write. Robert Macdonald is an artist and author living near Brecon in Wales. This site shows examples of his watercolour paintings of the Brecon Landscape and its myths, and The Brecon Jazz Festival.