A new exhibition of unseen Pitmen Painters' art has opened. Many of the works have been sourced from the local community in the coal-mining town where the Pitmen Painters first formed in the 1930s.
What Is the Story of The Pitmen Painters? Lee Hall’s new drama tells the true story of a group of miners in Newcastle, England, in the 1930s who discover a passion for painting and become ...
The Pitmen Painters is based on the triumphant true story of a group of British miners who discover a new way to express themselves and unexpectedly become art-world sensations! An arresting and ...
Black dust, shrill metallic noises, dark tunnels, muscular bodies – all that is the past. At the end of 2018, extraction of coal throughout Germany came to an end. That same year, the voices of ...
DR Robert McManners will give an illustrated talk titled Shafts of Light: The Pitmen Painters at Brancepeth Village Hall, Brancepeth, near Durham, on Saturday, November 30, at 7pm for 7.30pm.
John Gamble, Bob Girvan, Sam Girvan and Mel Elcock said they were proud to have stood against the tide When miners in Britain downed tools 40 years ago, thousands of pit workers in Leicestershire ...