Painter who said that his work exploited “the tension between abstraction and representation”. The decaying mining landscapes and communities of West Lothian were among his subjects. Born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, Crayk studied in Paris, 1971–2, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee, 1972–6, then Edinburgh College of Art, 1976–7. He was awarded a Scottish Education Department Minor Travelling Scholarship to France; won the Greenshields Foundation Scholarship (Canada) in 1978; in 1980 won Scottish Arts Council Amsterdam Studio Bursary. As well as participating in many group shows, Crayk had one-man exhibitions at Torrance Gallery in Edinburgh and Compass Gallery, Glasgow, and at Lamont Gallery, 1997. In 2003, he shared a show, Flesh, at Pilgrim Gallery.