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Finished yet, but theyre part of the ice cap melting. yeah, yeah. we are destroying everything, arent we? do you really... ? do you feel it that bad? yes, i feel it. i feel it in my bones. and so when you called part of the series the edge, you feel that we are how close to that edge? well, maybe not in my lifetime, but, i mean, are your grandchildren�*s grandchildren ever going to see a tiger? i mean, and the rest of it. er, we are doing our best to make a hash of everything, it seems. let me...

Almost incomprehensible. but you mean when you, literally, you start to draw with your left hand, youre not quite sure where its going and whats happening? exactly so. lets talk about your work and i want to begin with your most recent work, because you have continued painting right through lockdown. you even had a show in lockdown and youre still at it every day. has whats happened to the world in the last year and a half, has that affected the subject matter? well, at the beginning of lockdown...

Scene in the city. but in recent years, youve been doing your work in the middle of the suffolk countryside. has it changed the way you work and what you do? not at all. not at all? not at all. even though the atmosphere around you is so very different? not at all. i still get up at 5am in the summer and 6am in the winter, and come into the studio and make a drawing and get going. if i stayed in bed, id just worry about everything, so its far better to be up and at it. and yet, i suppose whats m...

Time youre going to see them before they go down there. so its quite obvious to make a drawing. but its not necessarily a time or a moment where... ..where you feel like working, cos it is sort of work as well as an act of love. but its the last time you see the person and this whole thing about death, i mean, if you love someone, they... for anyone, they go on being alive inside you, dont they? tell me about the shift from being a pure painter to then embracing sculpture as well. why did you mo...

De facto government is now morphing into or evolving into a government. it has to be a government. theres good governments, bad governments and vicious governments. the taliban will be whatever the taliban is but its a government. a government has to have relations with other governments to function as a government. right now theres not a bus driver in kabul that has been paid. theres not -- nobody has been paid. if you have no money and you have no food, the people that can provide money and fo...

Everything was doom and gloom and thatcher. and the paintings were becoming more and more like an object in space. an image of an object in space and so, being rather slow coming from suffolk, i realised i should be making the things rather than making them. and quite often, i could be working on a painting for quite a while and realised it was a sculpture and realised it was a sculpture and vice—versa. things are very funny. and vice-versa. things are very funn . �* , ., and vice-versa. thi...

Which are the ice caps melting and then the ice caps melting, which are still going on, led to the animals, and what were doing to animals. are these two works behind you, are they part of that sequence? yes, yes. i dont know if theyre finished yet, but theyre part of the ice cap melting. yeah, yeah. we are destroying everything, arent we? do you really... ? do you feel it that bad? yes, i feel it. i feel it in my bones. and so, when you called part of the series the edge, you feel that we are h...

Hardtalk.- let me ask you hardtalk. hello. let me ask you about this location. _ hardtalk. hello. let me ask you about this location. many - about this location. many people around the world would associate you with central london, a bohemian side of the city but in recent years you have been doing your work in the middle of the suffolk countryside. has it changed the way you work and what you do? not at all. way you work and what you do? not at all-— not at all. even though the atmosphere _ n...

Finished yet, but theyre part of the ice cap melting. yeah, yeah. we are destroying everything, arent we? do you really... ? do you feel it that bad? yes, i feel it. i feel it in my bones. and so when you called part of the series the edge, you feel that we are how close to that edge? well, maybe not in my lifetime, but, i mean, are your grandchildren�*s grandchildren ever going to see a tiger? i mean, and the rest of it. er, we are doing our best to make a hash of everything, it seems. let me...

Maggi hambling, welcome to hardtalk. hello. let me ask you about this location. many people around the world will associate you with soho, central london, a bohemian art scene in the city. but in recent years, youve been doing your work in the middle of the suffolk countryside. has it changed the way you work and what you do? not at all. not at all? not at all. even though the atmosphere around you is so very different? not at all. i still get up at five in the summer and six in the winter and c...