Ministers may want to sweep these events under the carpet, but the scars of the dispute and the subsequent closure programme remain on the memories, communities and landscapes of all coalfield communities.
To a degree this explains the charged and explicit eroticism of much of his work – though it should be noted that Schiele also painted landscapes throughout his working life.
There are no guarantees that such scenic landscapes will remain unscathed if business starts to thrive on the island.
Acts of random violence and kindness co-exist in both novels as the characters criss-cross each other's lives and the bleak landscapes.
The Andes, as the world's longest continuous mountain range, came to hold the promise of an endless succession of extreme and sublime landscapes.
Long before Google Earth, Hockney depicted these hills in absurd oranges, greens, blues and reds in landscapes such as Mulholland Drive: The Road to the Studio, 1980.
There are more restaurants in Garachico, and excursions include the nearby cliffside village of Masca, and volcanic Mount Teide with its weird, lunar landscapes.
Looking upon hands and feet – let alone faces – so distorted by disease that they appear mineralised, I was reminded of Max Ernst's use of decalcomania to create strange and post-human landscapes.
Subotsky's Marrakech seemed a world away from Power's still, almost stately, composite portraits of the city and its people and Goldberg's mix of monochrome and colour portraits and landscapes.
But Turner, Constable – I thought they were boring landscapes for chocolate boxes or biscuit-tin lids.
His output was astonishing for an artist of any age: from thousands of tiny doodles on his iPhone and then iPad to behemoth landscapes of the Wolds, notably the 40ft by 15ft Bigger Trees Near Warter, which culminated in a triumphant survey at the Royal Academy in 2012.
