Lorelei, David Wightman
Hannah Maybank
Hannah Maybank’s paintings contain elements from the natural world such as trees, flowers, clouds, and mountains. These natural elements are pared down to simple silhouette forms to act like motifs. Worked most often in monochrome, these motifs or templates are repeated across the surface of the paintings to create a patterning in both the visual composition and through the process of their creation.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Maybank uses both construction and destruction to create works which echo our relationship to time and the natural world. The cycles within life, both birth and decay, are reflected by the process in which her paintings are made: layers upon layers of latex and acrylic paint are built up to be then stripped, cut and peeled away to reveal both the composition and lifespan of the piece.
From October to December 2007, Maybank was artist in residence at ArtSway in The New Forest. To be created especially for the ArtSway main gallery space, the triptych Disclosure, 2008—her largest painting to date—was commissioned. In April 2008 this piece was exhibited together with a number of other paintings, and for the first time a set of working shellac ink drawings. In September of the same year The Hatton Gallery held a major overview of the artist’s practice. This exhibition also contained In Company, 2008—created especially to be shown alongside Kurt Schwitters's Merzbarn—and her painting The Visit—based upon Ian Fleming’s The Garden of Gethsemane, 1931, from the Hatton’s Historic collection.
In June 2009, The Visit, 2008, along with a number of other works were exhibited at the 53rd International Art exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia, 2009 as part of ArtSway’s New Forest Pavilion. The accompanying exhibition catalogue included an essay on the artist’s work entitled Gathering Life written by the critic and poet Cherry Smyth.
Hannah Maybank is represented by Gimpel Fils, London, and is an ArtSway Associate.
More Information on the Berwick Gymnasium Fellowship
The Berwick Gymnasium Fellowship programme began in 1993 and is awarded annually to selected professional artists who have demonstrated an ongoing commitment to developing their practice. Artists are selected to live and work in Berwick from October to April: this period of reflective time is intended to give artists an opportunity to produce a new body of work in response to this extraordinary border location.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Maybank uses both construction and destruction to create works which echo our relationship to time and the natural world. The cycles within life, both birth and decay, are reflected by the process in which her paintings are made: layers upon layers of latex and acrylic paint are built up to be then stripped, cut and peeled away to reveal both the composition and lifespan of the piece.
From October to December 2007, Maybank was artist in residence at ArtSway in The New Forest. To be created especially for the ArtSway main gallery space, the triptych Disclosure, 2008—her largest painting to date—was commissioned. In April 2008 this piece was exhibited together with a number of other paintings, and for the first time a set of working shellac ink drawings. In September of the same year The Hatton Gallery held a major overview of the artist’s practice. This exhibition also contained In Company, 2008—created especially to be shown alongside Kurt Schwitters's Merzbarn—and her painting The Visit—based upon Ian Fleming’s The Garden of Gethsemane, 1931, from the Hatton’s Historic collection.
In June 2009, The Visit, 2008, along with a number of other works were exhibited at the 53rd International Art exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia, 2009 as part of ArtSway’s New Forest Pavilion. The accompanying exhibition catalogue included an essay on the artist’s work entitled Gathering Life written by the critic and poet Cherry Smyth.
Hannah Maybank is represented by Gimpel Fils, London, and is an ArtSway Associate.
More Information on the Berwick Gymnasium Fellowship
The Berwick Gymnasium Fellowship programme began in 1993 and is awarded annually to selected professional artists who have demonstrated an ongoing commitment to developing their practice. Artists are selected to live and work in Berwick from October to April: this period of reflective time is intended to give artists an opportunity to produce a new body of work in response to this extraordinary border location.