A Line In The Water Special Edition - Norman Ackroyd & Douglas Dunn

NORMAN ACKROYD - SPECIAL EDITION

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This beautifully produced book brings together Norman Ackroyd RA, one of Britain's foremost landscape artists, and the award-winning poet Douglas Dunn, in a collaboration that takes the reader around the British coast through word and image. Ackroyd's prints - some 80 are featured in this book - are interleaved with 15 new poems by Dunn, including Working with Norman, based on their visit to the most northerly point of the British Isles.
Together, Ackroyd's atmospheric aquatints and Dunn's specially commissioned poems attest to the power of place, while reflecting the diversity of the landscape to be found along the British coastline.
Each book in this limited editiom of 125 copies, contains: one of numbers 41-165 of an especially commissioned limited edition of 165 etchings by Norman Ackroyd CBE RA, McDara's Church (2009), printed on 150 gsm laid paper by Niamh Clancy on the artist's presses in Southwark, and signed by the artist.
This hardback book is 160 pages and measures 29.5 x 24.5cms.

• Royal Academy of Arts