Tom Hammick Night Animals

4 Apr-18 May 2019

Overview

British artist Tom Hammick uses landscape as an arena for imagined scenes of love and loss. Shaped by diverse references from Northern European Romantic painting to daily news imagery and contemporary cinema, Hammick’s depictions of solitary figures and isolated dwellings conjure mysterious narratives of those living on the edgelands and outskirts of society. On view at Flowers Gallery will be a solo presentation of new paintings connected to both poetry and music, first developed during a residency at the 71st Aldeburgh Festival. Incorporating themes assembled from literary as well as musical sources, the subject matter of Hammick’s paintings shifts fluidly between the biographical and poetic.