"The Chili Pickers", 24" x 30" oil on  canvas	"El Borachon", 24" x 30" oil on  canvas
"The Family Portrait", 46" x 40" oil on  canvas	"Dancers", 16" x 12" oil on  canvas
"The Hiker", 24" x 30" oil on  canvas	"Alfonso", 16" x 12" oil on  canvas
"End of the Day", 16" x 12" oil on  canvas	"El Lodo es Vida", 30" x 24" oil on  canvas
"The Long Walk", 24" x 30" oil on  canvas	"Waiting for a Ride...", 24" x 36" oil on  canvas
"Life Among the Poplars", 18" x 24" oil on  canvas	"Un el Dia de la Vida", 18" x 20" oil on canvas

Angus Noel MacDonald has always been interested in art and painting, from early on in his life having an admiration for many of the French Post Impressionists, later, in 1962, studying at the Famous Artists School in Connecticut with Norman Rockwell, Dong Kingman, and Ben Shahn.  He began his career as an illustrator in 1963 for an advertising agency in El Paso, Texas.  This was a moonlighting job for Angus for six years while he was not on the air at K-Hey Radio under the name, “Dick MacDonald,” then transferring to Tucson where he continued in radio and acted as a stunt man in several motion pictures which led him to Hollywood where he continued as an actor with a passion for painting.  Here in California is where Angus began to make his mark as a painter first showing his work at Pickwick Gallery in Burbank. 

In 1974, Angus moved back to his hometown of Marfa, Texas to devote himself to painting full time.  Taos, New Mexico became home to Angus in 1981.  His paintings are in many major collections in the United States, Europe, and South America, such as Great Empire Broadcasting in Wichita and the First National Bank in El Paso.  His rich and sensitive canvases depicting the people and landscape of Southern New Mexico are currently represented at Parsons Gallery of the West in Taos, New Mexico.

Says artist, Angus Noel MacDonald, “Art has always been a part of my life.  Painting, like music has a spiritual quality to it. They enrich my life. When I am in the presence of art and music, I can’t help but feel uplifted. I began drawing when I was about five years old on the Mexican border in West Texas around hard working people who lived close to the earth. They lived simple lives. They were not well off but were able to put food on the table and clothe their families. They seemed happy with what they had. I try to paint the feelings I have for these humble people and their lifestyles. I try to paint the warmth of the sun on their simple adobe homes and the smell of wood smoke from mesquite and pinon fires, and their plain clothing. Each of my paintings is painted from my feelings, not from a photograph. I attempt to express a feeling beyond the image seen on the canvas. I try to  share in each painting the sum total of my 66 years of life experience among the humble Hispanic people of southern New Mexico.”