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In his eighth solo exhibition for the Eagle Gallery Tom Hammick mines private observations for a series of paintings that reflect upon love, memory and our place in the world. Asking a perennial question for any artist: ‘ what lasts or keeps’, Hammick’s images of figures in the landscape, lone sailing ships, an abandoned ladder in an orchard, become emblematic of wider resonances. Drawn from observation and establishing fugitive narratives with the simplest of elements, the paintings of the last two years have emptied out. A solitary woman in a gallery looks at canvases whose images are not shown to us, a mother and child stand silhouetted against a vast night sky, a house at dusk draws the observer to the light that shines in its windows. Hammick invites us to explore dramas left enigmatically unresolved. His simple figures inhabit their environments tentatively, mirroring our own temporary place in the land around us. The exhibition runs concurrently with a show of Hammick’s prints: Imitations of Nature at Flowers Central, London (9 March – 2 April) and we will be featuring his recent woodcuts at the 2011 London Original Print Fair at the Royal Academy 19 – 22 April. Hammick’s forthcoming shows include a painting exhibition with Julian Bell and Andrzej Jackowski at the Brighton Museum in 2012, as part of the Brighton Festival and a solo show of print works at the Where Where Gallery, Beijing. If you would like further details about the Edgeland exhibition or to be sent a PDF catalogue of the works on show, please contact the Eagle Gallery on + 44 (0) 207 833 2674 or email: emmahilleagle@aol.com
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