Voices in the Coalshed: Haiku Pen Portrait

A picture speaks a thousand words, but can words speak of a picture?

In our series of pen portraits  we have attempted to capture in words the essence of individual portraits in our current exhibition Face to Face: Portraits of an Industry:

Pit Brow Girl (1895)

Romantic moment,

Firm grip on her livelihood:

Flock fly the pit wheel.

Larry Townsend

Early morning shift

After a long night before:

Didn’t borrow her comb.