Tom McGuinness (1926–2006) was a British coal miner and artist.[1] At 18 he was conscripted as a Bevin Boy during World War II, and later studied at the Darlington School of Art,[2] and was one of the artists at the Spennymoor Settlement, where his contemporaries included Norman Cornish, Herbert Dees and Robert Heslop.[3][4]
In 2018 Frances O'Grady, General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress, exhibited his painting of Murton colliery in County Durham in her office.[5] This is the same county as the other places mentioned (above) in his career.