Monday: Closed

Tuesday: 10am - 5pm

Wednesday: 10am - 5pm

Thursday: 10am - 5pm

Friday: 10am - 5pm

Saturday: 10am - 5pm

Sunday: 11am - 5pm

Norman Ackroyd: Wild Isles

[ Exhibition )

A black and white etching showing a dramatic rocky outcrop in the sea dashed with snow

Explore wild corners of the British Isles from the towering peaks of the Scottish Highlands to the rugged west coast of Ireland, through Norman Ackroyd’s dramatic landscape etchings. A student of Julian Trevelyan at the Royal College of Art, Ackroyd (b. 1938) fell in love with the etching process. He is known for his monochrome etchings which capture the drama and spirit of Britain’s most remote locations.

The great things of art are the human figure and the landscape it lives in

Norman Ackroyd

Featured works

A monochrome etching by Norman Ackroyd depicting a craggy island rising from the sea and the sky filled with seabirds

The Rumblings Muckle Flugga, Shetland (2013)

Pallant House Gallery (presented by the artist, 2018) © The Artist

A monochrome etching by Norman Ackroyd depicting a flat river bank scored by water channels leading to a calm river with a few moored boats at the river edge

The Stour in Winter (2013)

Pallant House Gallery, Chichester (The Golder-Thompson Gift, 2014) © The Artist

A monochrome etching by Norman Ackroyd depicting a flock of birds rising from sea with the outline of a mountain rising in the background

Croagh Patrick from Inishturk (2016)

Pallant House Gallery (presented by the artist, 2018) © The Artist

A monochrome etching by Norman Ackroyd depicting a copse of trees standing on top of a hill

On Twyford Down, Deacon Hill (1993)

Pallant House Gallery (presented by the artist, 2018) © The Artist

A monochrome etching by Norman Ackroyd depicting a flock of birds silhouetteed against a rough seas and dark mountain

Gannets on Little Skellig from ‘The Western Shore’ (1987)

Pallant House Gallery, Chichester (Presented by Ruth Brown, 2014) © The Artist

A monochrome etching by Norman Ackroyd depicting sheer cliffs rising from water

Shiant Garbh Eilean (2010)

Pallant House Gallery (presented by the artist, 2018) © The Artist

I’m just trying to get a resonance of humanity.

Norman Ackroyd

A restaurant with Robin Day designed wooden chairs and red banquettes with glass panelled doors looking out onto a paved courtyard.

Eat and drink

Photograph shopwing the interior of a bookshop with white shelves packed full of art books. A man in the background reaches for a book on a shelf.

Shop

Photograph showing a man and woman sitting in a studio looking at a print out of a picture together

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