Original painting in pastel by artist Anne Courtine made in 2023 during a heritage visit to the Chatterley Whitfield Colliery site.
title: Buckets of Chatterly Whitfield 2023
Artwork Size: 43 x 60cm / 17” x 24”
Frame Size: 54 x 70 cm / 21” x 28”
Watercolour and pastel.
Chatterley Whitfield is the site of a large colliery, coal mine on the North Staffordshire Coalfield in north Stoke-on-Trent. It has been closed since the pit closures and was a museum for a time before funding ran out. A friends group open the site occasionally for heritage visits. They hope to make the site a World Heritage Site. The fire buckets represent the hazards and dangerous work experienced by the miners at the colliery.