Maelstrom comprises a new series of paintings by Maggi Hambling, made on her return to the studio following a near-fatal heart attack in New York in March 2022, two days prior to an exhibition of her work opening there.
During her six-week stay in a Manhattan hospital, the artist’s six-decade daily practice came to a halt. On the second day of her return to the UK, the Maelstrom series began. The resulting paintings are testaments to the tentative, determined resumption of her daily practice – and to the trauma of recovery.