<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/norman-ackroyddec18.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-5396" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/norman-ackroyddec18-300x188.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="188" /></a>Mary and I went to meet my college friends at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. It was one of those days when it rained heavily from sunrise to sunset. The motorway spray was a cloud that didn't improve either on the way there or on the way back. Needless to say we didn't wander around outside but focused on the <a href="https://ysp.org.uk/exhibitions/norman-ackroyd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Norman Ackroyd prints</a>.

<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Mary-at-YSPDec18.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-5397" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Mary-at-YSPDec18-300x240.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="240" /></a>There were a lot of images, largely grey scale with some water colour images. I'm always fascinated by prints because of the work that goes into producing them. apparently Norman Ackroyd carried his metal plates with him and did his etching at the locations, sometimes in a rowing boat. Imagine the scene where he is using acid and fine instruments to make his marks in negative on the plate. It's a miracle that anything gets produced. The photo shows my college friends in the background and Mary in the foreground studying the images.

<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/max-meschner-printdec18.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-5399" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/max-meschner-printdec18-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a>My affection for prints led me to buy a limited print by <a href="https://www.the-ropewalk.co.uk/2018/10/12/retrospective-max-marschner-1929-2017/?cat=17" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Max Marschner</a> from the Ropewalk Gallery in Barton upon Humber.

I'm still getting used to it hanging in the living space. I like it.