Paul Bloomer - Children Of The Furnace

Black Country artist Paul Bloomer talks about his large scale drawing 'Children of the Furnace' set in a pub in Pensnett, Dudley.

His 1989 charcoal drawing Children of the Furnace – a grotesque, epic pub panorama of binge-drinking and dope-smoking – ‘was the most accurate representation of my generation that I could draw. It represents a hopeless existence, the world I had lived in five years earlier as a factory worker. I felt the need to make the art accessible to everyone, so abstraction was out of the question.’