Barclay Ferguson was born into the family of the ancient Scottish Highlands clan of Lamond in St. Andrews, Scotland on September 22, 1924. Details are scant about his early artistic life in Great Britain. He joined the Royal Air Force during World War ll, serving from 1943 to 1947. After the war he attended the renowned Glasgow School of Art where he graduated with a degree in drawing and painting in 1951 and was awarded the coveted Stuart Prize from the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh. Three years later he moved across the Atlantic to Ontario, Canada where he was hired as a technical illustrator for the newly-founded Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, an arm of the government mandated to develop peaceful uses of nuclear energy. Five years later Barclay traveled to Mexico to attend the Instituto Allende in San Miguel de Allende. There he earned a Master’s degree in painting and mural painting, leaving behind a commissioned mural on a wall at this famed art school, part of the University of Guanajuato. Barclay spent the 1960s back in Canada before moving to the Monterey Peninsula in 1970. He was juried into the Carmel Art Association the following year, and served as director of the nearby Pacific Grove Art Center. His mediums included oil, acrylic, watercolor, gouache, and ink. Barclay’s self-described artistic periods and series’ subjects include: Post-Impressionism, Post-Expressionism, Weeds and Water, Walls, Microscopic, Fossils and Stumps, Abstraction, Realist, Victorian Houses, Cardboard Boxes, Games, and Tin Toys. In 1975 Barclay met Carmel artist Harriet Lerner Allen. At the time of their wedding in 1978, Barclay officially received the title of “The Right Honourable Viscount Barclay Ferguson of Lamond.” Henceforth his wife was known as Lady Harriet. In 1991 the Ferguson’s moved to Jacksonville, Oregon to pursue Harriet’s life-long dream of creating a working ranch. Together they built Haddos Half Moon Llama Ranch in Applegate, Oregon before he died of cancer in Monterey on December 26 that same year. Best known for his Mod-Realist style and dry wit, Barclay exhibited widely, mounting solo shows from Spain and Mexico City to London, Glasgow, Houston, Texas, and New York City. In addition he showed in California at the San Diego Art Institute in 1987 and the Monterey Museum of Art in 1973. He was commissioned to create large murals for Canadian Westinghouse in Hamilton, Canada and the Canadian Nuclear Society in Toronto. Another Ferguson work resides with the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C.