Marjorie Arnfield, British artist
Created | Updated Jan 23, 2020
Marjorie Arnfield (1930-2001) was a British artist who specialised in colourful Mediterranean landscapes, industrial paintings such as coal mines, and floral art. She was awarded an MBE in 2000 in the Millennium Honours List for services to British art. </p>
There is a lengthy Wikipedia entry on Marjorie Arnfield (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjorie_Arnfield). </p>
Her work has been extensively collected by private art buyers and galleries. </p>
In 1994, she held the first of a series of exhibitions across the UK to display her mining art. Having heard on the radio in the early 1990s that the then-British Coal was in the process of decommissioning coal mines prior to being shut down, she was shocked. Her concern was to portray an industry and a workforce that had been essential to Britain for generations. </p>
Despite being disabled, she toured a coal mine at one point. </p>
Images of Marjorie's mining art and her landscape paintings are available at the ArtUK website https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/view_as/grid/search/keyword:marjorie-arnfield. <p>
One of her two sons, Nick Arnfield,displayed distinct talent as an artist. Tragically, he died in 1999, but had already created a body of work, and two examples of his paintings are on ArtUK (https://artuk.org/discover/artists/arnfield-nick-19611999) . A posthumous exhibition of Nick's work was held at the St Ives Tate Gallery in 2000. </p>
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There is a lengthy Wikipedia entry on Marjorie Arnfield (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjorie_Arnfield). </p>
Her work has been extensively collected by private art buyers and galleries. </p>
In 1994, she held the first of a series of exhibitions across the UK to display her mining art. Having heard on the radio in the early 1990s that the then-British Coal was in the process of decommissioning coal mines prior to being shut down, she was shocked. Her concern was to portray an industry and a workforce that had been essential to Britain for generations. </p>
Despite being disabled, she toured a coal mine at one point. </p>
Images of Marjorie's mining art and her landscape paintings are available at the ArtUK website https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/view_as/grid/search/keyword:marjorie-arnfield. <p>
One of her two sons, Nick Arnfield,displayed distinct talent as an artist. Tragically, he died in 1999, but had already created a body of work, and two examples of his paintings are on ArtUK (https://artuk.org/discover/artists/arnfield-nick-19611999) . A posthumous exhibition of Nick's work was held at the St Ives Tate Gallery in 2000. </p>
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