Painter and teacher, born in Arbroath, Angus. Buchan studied at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee and continued with postgraduate studies at Patrick Allan-Fraser School of Art, Hospitalfield, Arbroath, 1954–9. He taught part-time at Dundee in 1962–5, then joined the full-time staff. Buchan participated extensively in group shows in Scotland. He won a number of awards, gaining the Keith Prize and Latimer Prize at RSA in the early 1960s, in 1973 winning a Scottish Arts Council Major Award. In 1988 he gained the William J Macaulay Award for the most distinguished work in the RSA, to which he was elected. Buchan’s first one-man was at Malcolm’s Furnishing Store, Dundee, in 1959. Others included Compass Gallery, Glasgow, in 1994.