The Mining Art Gallery
There are only a few weeks left to visit “The Last Cage Down” in Bishop Auckland, an exhibition which marks the 40th anniversary of the Miners’ Strike. John’s watercolour “Reclamation Percy Pit” is on show alongside many wonderful and interesting works by mining artists such as Norman Cornish, Bob Olley and Tom McGuinness and which portray the declining years of the coal mining industry and way of life before it was lost forever. The exhibition closes on 6 October.