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| Maggi Hambling OBE is best known as a painter of people, but animals feature prominently. She attempts to envision the fantasy into likeness from such subjects as night clubs, pubs & arenas. A painter of imagination, through gestures & vibrant colours. She manages to capture movement in the figures with swirling brushstrokes & just slight blurring of the torso. The raffish humour seeps through the canvas, all done with such dexterity as can be seen in the Max Wall paintings & many other figurative paintings. Hambling completed a series of Sunrises, one called Smiling Sunrise painted in cobalt blue. Many paintings of Orwell Estuary & others in St Ives, Cornwall were done on the spot in watercolour. Some were worked on later in the studio in oils. The Laughter series all have a wonderful spontaneity. A wordless, visual expression all too difficult to put onto canvas, but Maggi Hambling manages to capture them with joyous vibrant colours of ultramarines & reds. Maggi Hambling started working in the early 1990s on three-dimensional works in clay of highly coloured spindly creatures. One can see how she was influenced by Giacometti, although Klee's humorous drawings come to mind. It was a splendid exhibition. Her statue of Oscar Wilde can be seen close to the National Gallery site. It is a delightful sculpture. She has managed to capture the spirit of the man. The technique of the bronze sculpture is that of the ancient lost-wax method of casting. The shape is drawn out onto sand & then the indentations are filled with melted wax. This framework is then built up & cast in bronze. It looks as if it has been sculpted with a brush done in the style of one of the impressionists. He sits on the plinth {made out of Brazilian granite with flecks of gold that sparkle} reclining & gazing up at the sky, the inscription reads "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars"
For the last 30 years she has been teaching life classes at Morley College, London.
The sculpture is 12ft high splayed steel. It is a tribute to the composer Benjamin Britten & and it reads "I hear those voices that will not be drowned", words from Britten's opera Peter Grimes.
Maggi
Hambling's official website, supported by the artist, is at:
http://www.maggihambling.com |
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News An exhibition of new sea paintings called "Waves Breaking" is at the University Gallery, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne from 15th September to 2nd November 2007. An exhibition of Maggi Hambling's drawings called "No Straight Lines" which was at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge earlier in the year will be on show at Abbot Hall, Kendall from 16th November until 21st December 2007. Recent Exhibitions
An exhibition by Maggi Hambling "Portraits of People & the Sea".
It was at
Marlborough Fine Art, 6 Albemarle Street London W1 from
Jan 25 - Feb 25 2006. Works by Maggi Hambling could have been seen at the National Theatre, Lyttelton Circle, Foyer Gallery until May 28 2005. Called “The Telling Eye” John Berger Visual Collaborations with Jean Mohr & John Christie. Hambling's portrait of Michael Jackson went on display at Marlborough Fine Arts Summer show on July 27 2004. The Marlborough Gallery staged an exhibition of paintings, drawings
& bronzes of Henrietta Moraes by Maggi Hambling. Gainsborough Houseuntil May 21st 2000 |
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Maggi Hambling's delightful scallop shell sculpture at
Aldburgh's beach.
