BBC Documentaries
Maggi Hambling: Making Love with the Paint
2020 • E184 Oct 23, 2020 60m
Painter and sculptor Maggi Hambling allows cameras into her rural Suffolk studio for the first time, talking to film-maker Randall Wright about her life and career in a film to mark her 75th birthday. Formidable and funny, Maggi recalls her artistic liberation during her student days, a memorable meeting with Francis Bacon in Soho, and falling in love with his muse Henrietta Moraes, a woman Maggi continues to draw from memory following her death. With insights from Maggi's partner and fellow artist Tory Lawrence, colleague Sarah Lucas and art writer James Cahill.