In a small room just off the entrance lobby in Salts Mill, there's a new exhibition - easy to walk past, but very worth seeing if you happen to be visiting.
It's a collection of prints by Norman Stevens (1937-1988). He was a contemporary of Hockney's at Bradford School of Art in the mid-1950s and later at the Royal School of Art. He then taught art until in 1973 he became a full-time printmaker, specialising in mezzotint.
My lack of understanding of the variety of different printing techniques can be a source of frustration to me occasionally. I studied these quite closely and they display a great richness of tone. I'd never heard of the artist before but I did like his work very much.
(Please forgive any reflections and distortion in my photos; I was trying to avoid the bright strip lights that were a bit of a nuisance.)
Beautiful! Especially the first one.
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