MAGGI HAMBLING: WALLS OF WATER One of Britain’s most significant painters and sculptors, Maggi Hambling, exhibits a new series of dramatic paintings, which have never been seen in public before. Hambling’s eight works are vast, intense and energetic, measuring over six by seven feet, with another ninth, smaller canvas that was produced in response to the death of Amy Winehouse in 2011. Through turbulence and exuberant colour, Hambling continues to affirm painting’s immediacy, saying “The crucial thing that only painting can do is to make you feel as if you’re there while it’s being created – as if it’s happening in front of you.” Inspired by Hambling’s experience of gigantic waves crashing onto the sea wall at Southwold, Suffolk – the county where she was born, still lives and which has often inspired her workthe works offer visitors a contemporary parallel to the seascpaes by Norwegian artist Peder Balke. Maggi Hambling: Walls of Water November 26, 2014 – February 15, 2015 at The National Gallery.
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