Norman Cornish

Described as the master of the informal portrait and the unguarded moment, Norman Cornish has been capturing the world around his native Spennymoor in County Durham for almost eight decades. Widely acknowledged as one of the most importiant artists to have emerged from the region in the post war years, Cornish, born 1919 won his first drawing prize at the age of four. At 14 when he began his life as a miner at the Dean and Chapter Colliery, Spennymoor. He worked as a pitman for the next 33 years and then at the age of 47 commited himself to living by his painting which he had begun since the late 1930's.

View works at Kings Place Gallery by Norman Cornish