William Harold Buchanan was born in Cape Breton in 1925 and has painted throughout his lifetime up to the present day. As a Canadian, a veteran, and an astute social observer, his work is an important reflection of the last 80 years of cultural and political changes in our country. Employing direct expressionist techniques, Buchanan's work has a powerful psychological magnetism that has remained relevant to contemporary themes. His work is carried in many private collections.