“From the Darkness .... Part One” is an original oil on canvas framed 750 x 950mm created by Ian Mackenzie.
 
This artwork is framed in a traditional 2.5 inch black wooden surround with a light coloured insert. It comes with a Certificate of Authenticity which is signed and verified by the artist.
 
The Story Behind "From the Darkness .... Part One"
 
From the darkness they reach, weathered hands grasping at the coal that has shaped generations of lives. Beneath the earth, where daylight never reaches, the miner searches through the seams for the black gold that will bring warmth and light to those waiting above.
 
Each piece of coal is wrestled from the earth through strength and endurance. The hands that hold it carry the marks of a lifetime of labour, scarred, hardened and blackened by the dust of the mine. Yet within those hands lies the means to keep the fires burning and the families fed.
 
In the darkness there is danger, but there is also purpose. Every fragment brought to the surface represents another shift completed, another day's wage earned, another night when the warmth of the fire can fill the family home.
 
For generations they descended into the darkness so that others could live in the light. 
From the darkness, they brough life.
 
Ian Mackenzie