Painter, printmaker and muralist, born in Dundee. After working for a firm of postcard publishers and on a public building mural under the Job Creation Scheme McVeigh joined drawing classes at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, enrolled for the drawing and painting course, graduated in 1982 and then went to Ireland on a Scottish Education Department Scholarship. There he was attracted by the slow pace of rural life and the world of the folk musician, influences which affected his maturing work. He returned to Edinburgh in the mid-1980s and was for a time artist-in-residence at the Craigmiller Festival Society. He took part in the Scottish Print Open Tour in 1982, the Dundee Print Workshop Tour in 1988 and participated in mixed shows at Compass Gallery, Glasgow.