Norman Ackroyd’s Collectors

By Patricia Emison, from Volume 7, Number 1

Like Jacques Callot and Hercules Segers, Norman Ackroyd’s primary identity is as an etcher. Copper and acid are his native media. He works in oil sometimes, in watercolor often; he has produced steel and bronze etched reliefs for buildings, recycling the beauties of the copper plate on a monumental scale