Landscape with a Rainbow

While the geometric appearance of Norman Ackroyd's Landscape with a Rainbow seemingly places it among 1960s abstraction, the title alludes to the artist's interest in the long tradition of English landscape. In this work, Ackroyd further links himself with his national artistic heritage by using the mezzotint, a laborious engraving technique widely adopted by eighteenth-century British artists as a way to capture light and tone.