60" x 82", acrylic on canvas

Angus Macpherson

Angus Macpherson was born in 1952 in New Mexico, to a lawyer father who gave political speeches in Spanish and a school teacher mother. Neither parent was an artist but traveled with the children to museums across the United States and in Mexico as well as in Western Europe. The Macphersons were also very interested in the outdoors, and perhaps the seeds of future paintings were planted while hiking, camping and sailing. Their town situated along the Rio Grande valley running among the tall mountains and the people that have inhabited the area for one thousand years all have influenced Angus Macpherson's art.

Macpherson had his first art show in 1976, was married to Melissa Bartlett Macpherson in 1977, and began painting full time in 1983. Angus and Melissa and their two daughters lived In Antwerp, Belgium in 1995-96.

 Macpherson continues to paint in a studio built on the top of their adobe home in Albuquerque.