Maggi Hambling and Kurt Jackson

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When Looking and studying the sea during unit one and two, I researched in to two artists that I took major influence from and helped my work progress. In this essay I will be comparing the two artists. The artist’s that I will be comparing are Maggi Hambling and Kurt Jackson. The elements I will be discussing are intentions, subject matter, what inspired the artist, use of media, colour, technique, size, composition and viewer interaction. What Hambling is trying to achieve within her paintings is the intense, powerful moment when a wave comes crashing down. She is also trying to create the sense of sound in the paintings, the sound of the sea when the waves are being thrashed about, Hambling states that ‘it laughs, it cries and it also has angry outbursts.’[1] That is what she is trying to capture, the emotions of the sea. So overall ‘movement’ is what Hambling list as a key essential element to her artworks. The subject matter that Hambling is trying to put across is about ‘Time’ and how that the sea is like life. It comes to us and then it goes quicker than you think, and how that when the tide comes in it erodes the land much like us getting older. There is nothing we can do about it and that is the link to time and life. Hambling states that the sea is a metaphor for life and death [2]. Jackson is all about the drama of the landscape. He revisits places over and over to discover changing light and the impact from the weather. Jackson is a keen environmentalist and he cares about the landscape. If you inspect some of his paintings closely, mainly his river paintings, you can see that he has used found objects that we would class as litter, such as packaging. The words ‘house’, ‘plastic’, ‘warning’, ‘fish’ and ‘newt’ are clearly on display and are intended for a message to others about how we are not looking after the environment as we should. If you look

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