His parents were John Roderick Cameron (5 June 1881 - 1943), a commercial traveller, and Hilda Mary Stewart (1886 - 1954).
In 1944 he won the Guthrie Award with Boy With Apple, his other works that year being Winter Landscape and Portrait Of An Art Student.
This was an exhibiting group and it lasted until the mid-1950s when Cameron became a full time lecturer at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee.
[3] Alberto Morocco noted:[7] Gordon Cameron was an artist of great talent and sensibility and perhaps his sensitivity to the complex subtleties and variations of physical phenomena which he observed and translated so beautifully was the finest part of it.
His work covered themes of still life, landscape genre and of course portraiture, of which some of the most finest examples were of his wife, the painter Ellen Malcolm RSA, whom he married in 1962 and now survives him.
[9] Several of his works, The Bus Stop and the Monkey Puzzle,[10] The Edge of the City,[11] and The Visitors,[12] are owned by Art in Healthcare.