Cornfields at Walton, Cynthia Kenny, 1980

Cornfields at Walton, Walton Colliery, Watercolour on paper, Cynthia Kenny, 1980

Collected in 2023

Currently on display at Wakefield Museum in Cynthia Kenny: a city framed

A watercolour painting of a bright yellow cornfield in the foreground and red brick colliery in the background against a blue sky

Cynthia Kenny recorded the city of Wakefield with her paintbrush and pen. Sometimes her gaze shifted to the villages and structures outside the city centre.

Her artworks often captured a place on the verge of change. This is a view of Walton Colliery in the village of Walton, next to her home in Crofton.

As she painted this view, Walton Colliery was closing. It has now disappeared from the landscape.

Find out more about the Wakefield district's coal mining heritage.

Paintings digitally reproduced with the kind permission of the Cynthia Kenny estate and Wakefield Council Permanent Art Collection (The Hepworth Wakefield).

Cornfields at Walton (Walton Colliery), Cynthia Kenny, 1980 - creative audio description

Listen to Artist Michelle Duxbury’s description of Cynthia Kenny’s ‘Cornfields at Walton’. Duxbury's creative audio descriptions were produced for our in-gallery audio guides in Cynthia Kenny: a city framed.

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