Painter and teacher, born in Ootacamund, southern India. He was awarded an Andrew Grant Scholarship in the mid-1960s, attending Edinburgh College of Art, 1966, winning a postgraduate scholarship in 1967 and a Helen A Rose Travelling Scholarship, 1967–8. Donald was a visiting scholar at Benares University in 1967, then was at Hornsey College of Art, 1969. In the 1970s he won a series of awards and bursaries followed by more in the 1980s, including the RSA Gillies Prize and RSW May Marshall Brown Award. Donald was a member of RSA, RSW and SSA. He worked as a visiting artist in China and Thailand, lectured at Edinburgh College of Art and was director of Edinburgh Festival Summer School in the Visual Arts. Donald showed widely in Britain and abroad in mixed exhibitions.