Mercer Art Gallery

I’m going to get all Picasso on your mother now. Well not literally or else I’d probably be locked up for whopping off an ear or something. Hold on a minute was that Van Gough? Anyway, culture vultures pay attention. Let’s do the Mercer Art gallery.
With such a fine history and elegant buildings, Harrogate is indeed the place to go for some visual delights. The Mercer Art gallery taps into that. It is the home of some 2000 works of art, mainly from the 19^th and 20^th centuries. The collection includes works by William Powell Frith, Atkinson Grimshaw, Sir Edward Burne-​Jones, Dame Laura Knight and Alan Davie.
It’s an excellent space and has so much to look at. What’s more, they do change the exhibitions quite regularly so it’s a place you can go back to again and again. It won’t be to everyone’s tastes though. There isn’t much in the way of Andy Warhol or Dali type paintings; it’s more traditional than that. Less Pop Art and more portraits.
I must confess you are more likely to find me being blown away by some Surrealism or contemporary sculptures but as someone who struggles to draw match stick men I can’t help but marvel in the talents of these painters.