Born in 1932 in Edinburgh.

Crawford studied at Edinburgh College of Art 1951-1955. After teaching in schools in Edinburgh and Fife for several years, he was a lecturer at Moray House College of Education from 1965-1989.

Since 1956 Crawford has exhibited regularly in his home country: at the Scottish Society of Artists, the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour, as well as various well-known commercial galleries.

Hebridean Wave I / Untitled Seascape