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Alistair Crawford
Alistair Crawford: Weaver of Welsh Landscapes and Quiet Melancholy Born in 1945 in Fraserburgh, a small fishing town on the north-east coast of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, Alistair Crawford’s artistic journey began not with grand ambitions but with a quiet resistance to the strictures of his upbringing. His father, a herring fisherman, and his mother, who worked as a school cleaner, instilled in him a deep connection to the rugged beauty
of the Scottish landscape – a landscape that would become the enduring subject of his paintings and prints for over six decades. Early exposure to the stark realities of coastal life, coupled with a childhood marked by Calvinist evangelical Christianity, fostered within Crawford a contemplative spirit, one that sought solace and expression through art rather than dogma. His formal artistic education commenced at Glasgow School of Art…