How you can use this image

This image can be used for non-commercial research or private study purposes, and other UK exceptions to copyright permitted to users based in the United Kingdom under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, as amended and revised. Any other type of use will need to be cleared with the rights holder(s).

Review the copyright credit lines that are located underneath the image, as these indicate who manages the copyright (©) within the artwork, and the photographic rights within the image.

The collection that owns the artwork may have more information on their own website about permitted uses and image licensing options.

Review our guidance pages which explain how you can reuse images, how to credit an image and how to find images in the public domain or with a Creative Commons licence available.

Notes

Add or edit a note on this artwork that only you can see. You can find notes again by going to the ‘Notes’ section of your account.

Philip Toft's interest in art did not really begin until after he left school. His father, who later went on to become a local playwright, used to take him to visit galleries where he developed an admiration for the works of Leeds-born artist Atkinson Grimshaw (1836–1893). Shortly after that point Toft took up art himself and he continues to paint in his spare time. His father wrote a number of radio plays involving mining villages and the 1984–1985 strike and was clearly a motivation behind the creation of these paintings, which were undertaken over a 10-year period.