The intensity of their first encounter has remained an indelible memory. While Tory moved to Hambling’s farmhouse near Saxmundham in Suffolk, Oaksey turned to friends for support – among them, Frank Crocker, a farmer, and his wife, Rachel, known as ‘Chicky’. ‘People thought I was ill.I was so smitten I couldn’t say anything,’ recalled Maggi Hambling Hambling and Tory were …
Sudbury CNN — When I see the car number plate ending in “GAY,” I know I’m in the right place. It’s a look that’s become synonymous with her reputation of being “the original bad girl of British art,” a “queer icon” and a “controversial figure.” At age 77, Hambling is billed as “one of the greatest painters living today” in …
CNN — Mary Wollstonecraft, the 18th-century English writer and philosopher often dubbed the “mother of feminism,” received a new tribute on Tuesday: a statue in a London park meant to honor her life and work. It all sits on a black base engraved with a famous Wollstonecraft quote: “I do not wish women to have power over men, but over …
