Norman Ackroyd Exhibition and Private View

The Gallery at West Yorkshire Print Workshop is pround to announce our new exhibition featuring the work of acclaimed printmaker Norman Ackroyd RA. Norman is amongst the most celebrated of all those British contemporary printmakers who continue to use the traditional methods of printmaking. The exhibition opens on Thursday 12th of April and runs until Saturday 19th of May.

There is also a private view of the exhibtion on the 13th of April 7.00pm-8.30pm. We are pleased to say that Norman will be attending the Private View.

The solo exhibition features 29 of Norman’s signature landscape prints. The range of atmospheric landscape locations within the exhibition takes us on a wonderfully dramatic tour around the UK. Norman’s highly distinctive landscapes concentrate upon the interpretation of the effects of changing weather and light – in his depiction of these phenomena he remains unsurpassed by his contemporaries. His works go far beyond mere reportage, evoking a deep sense of atmospheric mood which captures the character of the landscape portrayed.

Visit the gallery to view Norman’s extraordinary landscapes, including views of High Island from Inishbofin in a Force 10 gale, to the majestic Three Sisters Dingle peninsula. There is also a series of Yorkshire based landscapes including Autumn Sunrise Windermere and Snowstorm at Cartmel Fell. A truly wonderful exhibition of living landscape.

Born in Leeds in 1938, he studied at Leeds College of Art from 1956-61, then the Royal College of Art, 1961-64. Norman is a technical perfectionist, considered by many to be the most accomplished living British printmaker, Ackroyd has been consistently applauded for his uniquely modern style of aquatint landscapes and was elected a full member of the Royal Academy in 1991. In 2007 Norman was awarded a C.B.E. for Services to Engraving and Printing.