Maggi Hambling
Fruity Laugh
£4,250.00
£4,250.00
Mixed Media
Back of Jenna
£2,500.00
£2,500.00
Monoprint
Lake Isle Innisfree
£2,950.00
£2,950.00
Mixed Media
Wild Spring Wave
sold
sold
Oil on Canvas
George Melly
£725.00
£725.00
Silkscreen Print
North Sea Series
£2,400.00
£2,400.00
Oil on Canvas
Stephen Fry Musing
£645.00
£645.00
Silkscreen Print
Derek Jarman
£695.00
£695.00
Silkscreen Print
38cm x 60cm
Wave at Sunrise
sold
sold
Oil on Canvas
31cm x 25cm
High Summer Wave
sold
sold
Oil on Canvas
31cm x 25cm
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Profile
Maggi Hambling
Work first, wash later – Maggi Hambling
Maggi Hambling’s exuberant paintings are exhibited in the National Portrait Gallery; National Gallery; British Museum, Victoria and Albert and the Tate Collection, amongst others. A household name in British Art, the controversial artist is known as a figurative, landscape and portrait painter and sculptor.
Hambling’s portraits of George Melly, Stephen Fry, Max Wall and Derek Jarman are rightly famous. Christened ‘the female Bacon’ by The Art Newspaper, she shares Bacon’s ability to slice through the superficial layers of her subjects to the messy, pulpy truths held within. Close friend George Melly nicknamed her ‘Maggi “Coffin” Hambling’ due to her penchant for painting subjects in their coffins, particularly those to whom she had been close - her father, painter Harry Hambling, and her lover and muse Henrietta Moraes. Unlike Victorian photographers with the same seemingly gloomy specialism, Hambling’s delicately pencilled work shares with the viewer the intimacy and tenderness of experiencing the deaths of those we love. She is both clear-sighted and loving in her painterly observations of her subjects.
More recently, Hambling has become pre-occupied with Suffolk seascapes, applying her rich, dynamic brushstrokes to these paintings in the same way in which she famously conveyed George Melly’s vigour through densely applied colour in her best-known portrait of the jazz singer. Hambling’s seascapes accurately convey the whirling movements and colours of the sea and more, imbuing the canvas with a spiritual, dreamlike and ghostly light.
Educated at the Slade School of Fine Art, Hambling’s sculpture 'A Conversation with Oscar Wilde' was unveiled in central London in 1998, and ‘Scallop for Benjamin Britten’ was installed on Aldeburgh beach in 2003. Hambling was awarded the first Marsh Award for Excellence in Public Sculpture in 2005. Her portrait of Derek Jarman was recently loaned to the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
Maggi Hambling was the first artist-in-residence at the National Gallery: her painting of a warder has been on permanent exhibition there for the 30 years since. Balman Gallery shares the National Gallery’s knowledge that Maggi Hambling is a leading 21st Century British artist and is delighted to display these paintings.