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‘Shifts End – How Green Was My Valley’ is a large piece, framed acrylic on canvas, 575mm x 880mm.
I did an upgrade to Shifts End February 2026.
I painted this piece back in November 2025 and being a city boy from Syd-a-ney a lot of the original content was from my imagination (aka artist licence) and what I could gather from reference material (black and white images etc)
Now I have a good learned friend who happens to be a proud welshman and grew up in a mining village of Wales. He spent his working life in and around mines. Me being me (a non smoker) and the age we live in now had all the miners walking downhill from pit all healthy in their ways. None of them had filthy durries or pipes in their mouths.
My friend informed me that up to approximately 80 plus percent of the miners would reach for their smokes as soon as possible after their shift, particularly after having spent 8 to 10 hours ‘in pit’ and unable to partake.
I was very happy with the original completed painting but it niggled me that I had the miners all in what I believed to be Company working coats so I was going to repaint that facet. When I was told of the “smokers” I went all in. “I consented to the rank and file to light up and enjoy”
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