Goldmark Magazine - Number 34 - Autumn 2024 - 64 pages
This Autumn issue arrives at a bittersweet moment for us at the gallery. The past few weeks have seen the loss of two artists with whom we have been working closely in recent months. Graham Boyd, who was 96 – and still painting every day – had an enthusiasm for art, paint and colour that was wonderfully infectious. Over a 70-year career he never stopped exploring where his vibrant abstractions might take him. We will remember his unending energy with a celebratory exhibition later this October.
It was an extraordinary series of events that saw us reunited with Norman Ackroyd earlier this year, three decades after we had last worked together. That chance meeting subsequently sparked the completion of another exceptional project of Norman’s that had lain dormant for years. I am delighted that we have been able to bring it to fruition – and deeply saddened that Norman, who passed away on the 16th September, just days after the last details were finalised, w
