Local Artist – Colin Telfer Worked in Cumbrian coal pits for over 20 years. When he lost his job he enrolled on an Art course. He became interested in.

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Local Artist – Colin Telfer

Worked in Cumbrian coal pits for over 20 years. When he lost his job he enrolled on an Art course. He became interested in creating sculptures with clay and coal dust. Since then, he has made many sculptures around Cumbria using clay and iron dust.

Egremont Celebrates the towns history of iron mining.

St. Bees This statue was built at the millenium (2000). It shows Saint Bega (also known as Saint Bee) arriving by boat from Ireland.

Whitehaven Made from coal and slate to celebrate the town’s history of coal and slate mining.

Maryport ‘A fishy tail’

Cleator Moor A nurse looking after a soldier. To remember the people whose lives were lost in wars.

Barrow in Furness ‘The Red Men’

Coniston What would our statue look like?