I have been very busy with my photography and so have not been blogging. Today we are talking about Maggi Hambling apparently a controversial artist, that divides opinions, ignores critics, work very hard, and swears, who doesn't today. Born 23 October 1945, Sudbury Suffolk. She had two siblings, a sister, Ann, who was 11 years older, and a brother, Roger, nine years older. Her brother had wanted a brother but ignored the fact that his younger sibling is female. He taught her carpentry, and how to wring a chicken's neck, wonderful. Hambling had a relationship with her mother who taught ballroom dancing and took Hambling along to be her partner. From her father that she inherited the painting and artistic skills. She was not as close to her father as she was to her mother but when her father retired at the age of 60, Hambling gave him some oil paints and discovered that he had a knack for painting. Hambling first studied art under Yvonne Drewry at the Amberfie