BORN 1945  SUFFOLK, ENGLAND

Maggi Hambling is a household name in British art. She studied with Lett Haines and Cederic Morris at Ipswich School of Art, Camberwell School of Art and Slade School of Fine Art. She was the First Artist in Residence at the National Gallery in 1980-81 and among other of her works her portraits of George Melly and Max Wall hang in the National Portrait Gallery.

In 2010 Maggi Hambling was awarded a CBE. Her public sculpture Scallop a monument to the composer Benjamin Britten stands on Aldeburgh beach Suffolk and her main muse of recent years has been the North Sea.