Andrew Lambirth

‘Time is eating away at one’s life’

Andrew Lambirth talks to the artist Maggi Hambling about drawing, the sea and her terrier

issue 10 February 2007

I’m talking to Maggi Hambling in the downstairs studio of her south London home, because her beautifully light upstairs painting space is being given a new coat of white paint, the first for years. She always says that if she ever comes to sell this house the agents can market it as having ‘four reception rooms, two bathrooms and a ballroom.

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