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Tom McGuinness

Tom McGuinness (1926 - 2006) was active/lived in Ireland.  Tom McGuinness is known for Coal mining scene paintings and sketching , landscape, genre, figures.

Born in 1926 in Witton Park, County Durham Tom McGuinness showed a predilection towards sketching from an early age. After leaving school in 1940, he worked in the Meadow Dairy Grocery shop, and then the timber trade until 1944, when he was signed up to the coal industry, as part of the conscriptions enforced by the Bevin government, to counteract falling labour within the industry during World War II.

His path to receiving formal training in art was initiated when his Colliery training officer found Tom sketching in chalk down the mines and suggested he join Darlington School of Art. Like his contemporary Norman Cornish, Tom McGuinness was greatly encouraged in his artistic endeavours by Bill Farrell and the Spennymoor Settlement which he joined in the 1940's. Bill Farrell suggested the two men should ''paint what they knew'' and of course this direction led to the evocative renditions of the mining community which we appreciate today, albeit in two highly distinctive styles.   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1653 characters.]  Artist bio

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