Norman Ackroyd, who has died aged 86, was the outstanding etcher of his generation, renowned for creating images of spectacular British landscapes that he produced with breathtaking technical mastery.
To do so he undertook a remarkable series of journeys in search of landscapes of the greatest drama. He found them mostly in the extremities of the British Isles, from south-west Ireland to the Outer Hebrides, where he relished the adventure of hiring a boat to make the 35-mile crossing to St Kilda.
