The fifth of six children of Sir William Lawson CBE BA FCA, he was educated at Lancing College in Sussex (Captain of the School 1963).
[3] Publications by Andrew Lawson include The Gardener's Book of Colour, published by Frances Lincoln.
[4] His photographs accompany books by Rosemary Verey, Charles, Prince of Wales,[citation needed] Penelope Hobhouse,[5] Sir Roy Strong, Tom Stuart-Smith, Arabella Lennox-Boyd, David Austin, Ursula Buchan, Stephen Lacey and Mary Keen, amongst others.
Lawson was perhaps the first photographer to explore the frost in the early morning and un-trodden snow in an otherwise lifeless, winter garden.
They have retained West Mill, the Duncan family home in an isolated valley at Welcombe in North Devon, which they manage as a nature reserve.