Tom Hammick, Nightfire

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Lyndsey Ingram is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by the
British artist Tom Hammick. Entitled ‘Nightfire', this is the gallery’s first solo show of
Hammick’s work to be held in their Mayfair space, as well as the first time his paintings will
be presented alongside his woodcuts, etchings and aquatints.
This exhibition was first planned for spring 2020, but due to lockdown was postponed until
the autumn. In the intervening months, Hammick completed this new body of over 20
works in various mediums, as he spent this period in isolation at his home in the English
countryside near Battle in Sussex.
While Hammick’s familiar subjects of his family and the forested nature and sea beyond
his studio reappear, the new works appear charged with an almost electric energy.
Natural phenomena that normally appear in his work, such as the darkness of the sky,
became much more intense during the past months. This inspired the artist to look afresh
at the world around him and to focus even more on depicting the individual within the
natural world.