Maggi Hambling @ Pallant House Gallery

This exhibition, Nightingale Night features 14 new paintings by Maggi Hambling, inspired by a night spent in the Sussex woodland guided by folk musician and conservationist, Sam Lee. The nightingales’ haunting songs left a deep impression on Hambling, resulting in artworks that reflect the beauty and power of that moment.

Through a striking gold-on-black palette, Hambling evokes the birdsong cutting through the darkness, capturing the fleeting beauty of sound. The works reflect both the transience and power of her experience and the growing threat to nightingales due to climate change.  Her paintings explore how song, whether bird or human, can be transformed into gesture and colour.