A MAJOR retrospective exhibition of works by a celebrated landscape artist is bringing together works on loan from private collections around the country.

Simon Palmer, who lives in Masham, is a successful artist whose London shows every two years are always sold out. To stage the show at Harrogate's Mercer Art Gallery, private owners from Cornwall to Cumbria had to be persuaded to be temporarily parted from their paintings.

The exhibition, Simon Palmer: Territories of the Imagination, opens today and continues until July 18.

Published: 29/05/2004