Maggi Hambling was born in 1945 in Suffolk, the UK. In 1980, she became the first Artist in Residence at the National Gallery in the UK, and her works have been in the collections of Tate, National Portrait Gallery, and other art institutions. Mainly themed by the sea, females, and death, her oil paintings are abstract, complex, and emotional.
Maggi Hambling is also one of the few living artists who have held exhibitions at the National Portrait Gallery in the UK, the British Museum, the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, and other well-known galleries and museums. Her works have been collected in the British Museum, Tate as well as other major global art institutions, including Yale Center for British Art in the United States, Victoria and Albert Museum in the UK, and the National Gallery of Australia. She has received numerous major awards.