Tom Hammick

TOM HAMMICK

TOM HAMMICK

UNFOLDING DAYS

UNFOLDING DAYS

“The Beginning and end of all literary activity is the reproduction of the world that surrounds me by means of the world that is in me, all things being grasped, related, recreated, molded, and reconstructed in a personal form and original manner.”

- Goethe

“Yes ...” that peculiar affirmative. “Yes ...”

A sharp, indrawn breath, half groan, half acceptance, that means “Life’s like that. We know it (also death).”

- Excerpt from The Moose by Elizabeth Bishop

In a letter to Théodore Schempp in 1953, Nicolas de Staël wrote, “painting alone remains adventurous.” As a young painter after art school in the early 90’s, it did still feel this way to me, though not to the largely non-painting or

pun-painting YBA’s who were in ascendency at the time. Figurative painting got so little traction in the UK, with the exception of a few artists born around the 60s, who kept the flame alive and held what seemed like a rear-guard action against the quick fix and bon mots of the Brit Pack.

Peter Doig especially, Merlin James, Chris Ofili, Chantal Joffe, Elizabeth Magill and later Andrew Cranston were all artists defying the trend, ignoring the painting is dead pronouncements by art tutors with grudges, and curators, gallerists, critics and collectors who had it in for slow-burn image makers. Not until the sub-prime mortgage crisis in the UK, when a world in financial collapse opened the doors to a quieter and more reflective form of making pictures, would many of my fellow painters feel less marginalized. Poetry, or the poetic in painting was back, after it had seemingly been banished for a whole generation or two of artists. At last, it seemed, you didn’t need a sheet of foolscap to write down an explanation of a work beside it.

The “painting alone remains adventurous” maxim in

various iterations I still have on repeat. It revolves around my head on a loop as a mantra; partly (and most paintermates might see eye to eye with this) it establishes a bravura that keeps me going when nothing seems to be working in the studio. These days, often feeling sick as a dog with anxiety and blue with the angst and outof-reachness of this daily ritual, I catch myself out loud saying Painting is impossible, or filthier words to this effect. It’s as difficult as climbing a mountain and requires the same focus. It’s as challenging as bringing up children. Why on earth even try to work a clunky visual language that attempts to conjure the equivalent of being human?

But nevertheless I try, and in looking back at these most recent paintings for this exhibition at Maya Frodeman Gallery, I feel that it would have been less difficult if I had been more oblique in my approach to celebrating wonderment, the love of friends and family, the balm of home under the sheltering sky. But my working method doesn’t help here. After all, a drawing of my son Charlie

in a London park, or my children in a dark wood, or Sidsel and Johnno stooping over a flowerbed, or a horse grazing in front of a barn, can lead to a painting that requires a truth of these friends and on-the-hoof experiences in my life that is – I hope – both specific and universal. How to try and paint these things I experience and feel, and walk the line between my encounters and those that anyone looking at my work might connect to? To quote Elizabeth Bishop’s poem The Moose, “Life’s like that. We know it (also death).” This is what one craves for from the onlooker.

Unfolding Days is by and large an exhibition of paintings and drawings observing and exploring events in my life: near, present, and past.

Tom Hammick

London, July 2025

71 x 105 3/4 inches

FOUR FRIENDS IN A GARDEN, 2025

60 1/2 x 48 inches

36 x 58 1/4 inches

54 x 78 1/2 inches

Edition variable reduction woodcut, Edition of 10

47 3/4 x 38 1/2 inches

Edition variable reduction woodcut with hand painting,

Edition of 17

29 1/2 x 42 inches

Oil and ink on carved plywood panel

15 1/4 x 11 1/2 inches

on carved panel

15 1/4 x 11 1/2 inches

10 1/4 x 13 inches

12 x 9 inches

8 1/2 x 11 3/4 inches

Oil on plywood panel

8 x 6 inches

NIGHT GARDENER, 2025

Watercolor on gesso on panel

5 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches

WOMAN IN A GARDEN, 2025

Oil on plywood panel

6 x 5 1/2 inches

THROUGH THE WOODS, 2025

Watercolor on gesso on panel

7 x 5 3/4 inches

STARRY NIGHT AND A COSY CABIN, 2024

Watercolor on gesso on plywood panel

7 1/8 x 6 inches

Oil on canvas board

7 x 5 inches

Oil on carved plywood panel

6 x 8 inches

8 x 6 inches

5 3/4 x 4 inches

WEDDING DAY (JENŮFA), 2025

Oil on plywood panel

6 x 4 inches

4 3/4 x 2 3/4 inches

SEA WALL, 2025

Watercolor on panel

6 x 4 inches

6 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches

Oil on carved plywood panel

6 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches

8 1/4 x 6 inches

Oil on carved plywood panel

8 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches

EDGE OF NIGHT 19/30, 2019

Edition variable etching, Edition of 30

16 x 13 3/8 inches

GARDENING, E.V. 24/25, 2025

Etching, Edition of 25

7 x 9 3/4 inches

9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches

PATH TO THE SEA,

PATH TO THE STUDIO, 2024

8 7/8 x 16 1/4 inches

8 1/2 x 6 inches

WALKING

8 1/2 inches

TOM HAMMICK

British, born in Tidworth, UK in 1963

Lives and works in London, UK

EDUCATION

1982-1985 BA Hons Art History, Manchester

1987-1990 BA Hons Fine Art, Camberwell

1989 Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Canada, Exchange Student

1990-1992 MA Printmaking, Camberwell

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025 Unfolding Days, Maya Frodeman Gallery, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, USA

2023 Part 1, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho, USA

2022-2023 An Introduction, Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, USA

2022 My Sister’s Garden, Lyndsey Ingram Gallery, London, UK

2020 Nightfire, Lyndsey Ingram Gallery, London, UK

Dark Woods of England, Gallerie Boisserée, Cologne, Germany

Atlantica, with Lyndsey Ingram Gallery London, Virtual

Miles to go before I sleep, Paul Smith London, London, UK

Deep End New Paintings and Prints, Lyndsey

Ingram Gallery, London, UK

2019 Night Animals, New Paintings, Flowers Gallery,

Cork Street, London, UK

The Making of Poetry Woodcuts, Flowers Gallery, Cork Street, London, UK

Deep North Selected Prints, 2004-2019, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow, UK

The Making of Poetry Woodcuts, Rye Gallery, Sussex, UK

Lunar Voyage, St. Mary’s University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Lunar Voyage, The Drawing Schools, Eton College, Eton, UK

Dark Woods of England, Gallerie Boisserée, Cologne, Germany

2018 Aldeburgh Music Festival. Suffolk in the Peter Pears Gallery and Garage Gallery, Aldeburgh, UK

Lunar Voyage, Flowers Kingsland Road, London, UK

Island Life: new works, Rabley Drawing Center, Marlborough, UK

2017 Lunar Voyage, New Woodcuts. Flowers Gallery

New York, New York, USA

2016 Passes Between Us, Rabley Drawing Center, Marlborough, UK

Out of Opera. Paintings and works on Paper inspired by ENO residency, Galerie Prodromus, Paris, France

Waiting for Time: Sea Paintings and Works on Paper, Sladers Yard, Bridport, UK

2015 Wall Window World, to mark the publication of Julian Bell’s monograph, published by Lund Humphries with the same title, Bridport Arts Center, UK

Wall Window World: Flowers East, London, UK

Solo Show, Candida Stevens, Chichester, UK

Opera Works, Gallery Prodromus, Paris, France

2014 New Paintings, Flowers New York, New York, USA

2013 Night Sky, Flowers Gallery, Cork Street, London, UK

Hypnagogic, Galerie Prodromus, Paris, France

Eidetic, The Art Stable, Kelly Ross Fine Art, Blandford, Dorset, UK

2012 Evading Dystopia: New works, The Campden Gallery, Chipping Campden, UK

Large Printworks, Where Where Gallery Beijing, Beijing, China

Night and Day, New Drawings and printsworks, Rabley Drawing Center, Marlborough, UK

Night Prints, Christina Parker Gallery, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

2011 Edgeland, The Eagle Gallery, London, UK

Imitations of Nature, Flowers Gallery, London, UK

Time, Thought and Space, Chalk Hill Fine Art, Healdsburg, California, USA

Dreams of Us, New Paintings and Woodcuts, Gallery Page and Strange, Canada

2010 The Campden Gallery, Chipping Campden, UK

2009 Sir Wilfred Grenfell College Art Gallery, Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Pro tem: New paintings, Paul Kane, Dublin, Ireland

Salisbury Museum and Art Gallery

Canopy, Kelly Ross Fine Art, Dorset, UK

Terrestrial, 10 years of Printmaking, Northern

Print, Newcastle, UK

New Paintings, Gallery Page and Strange, Nova Scotia, Canada

Paintings and Works on Paper, Christina Parker Gallery, Canada

2008 Charleston Festival Exhibition: Nocturnal and other paintings, Lewes, UK

New Paintings, The Eagle Gallery, London, UK

2007 Eagle Gallery, London, UK

Campden Gallery, Chipping Campden, UK

Gallery Page and Strange, Nova Scotia, Canada

Chalk Hill Fine Art

2006 Paul Kane Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

49th Parallel, Travels Through Newfoundland, HQ Gallery, East Sussex, UK

Kelly Ross, Dorset, UK

2005 I month of painting, Project Space, London Art Fair, London, UK

Journey Through Newfoundland, New Paintings, Eagle Gallery, London, UK

Fine Art: Travel, New Work, Studio 21, Nova

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Scotia, Canada

New Work, Camden Gallery, Chipping Campden, UK

Stewart Zimmer Gallery, Arundel, UK

New Graphic Work, Flowers East Gallery, London, UK,

An exhibition of Paintings and Prints since 2002 at The Hospital, Covent Garden, London, UK

2004 Works on paper, Eagle Gallery, London, UK

New Paintings, Kings, Lewes, UK

The Villas, Eagle Gallery in association with Martin Elliott, London, UK

2003 Homeland, New paintings, Eagle Gallery, London, UK

New monumental woodcuts and lithographs, Standpoint Gallery, Hoxton, London, UK

Paintings and woodcuts, Studio 21 Fine Art, Halifax, Canada

2002 Tapestries, Itre, London, UK

View from the Shore, Kings Gallery, Lewes, UK

2001 New Work, Studio 21 Fine Art, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Atlantic Provinces, Paintings and Prints, Paul

Kane Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

Surfer Paintings and Prints, Star Gallery, Lewes, UK

Surfers and the Martha Paintings, O C & C

Strategy Consultants, London, UK

2000 New Paintings and Prints, Redfern Gallery,

London, UK

Paintings, Tapestries and Prints: A

Retrospective, Etc. Gallery, Soho 601, London, UK

The Surfer Paintings: The Eagle Gallery hosting at 45 Bethnal Green Road, London, UK

1999 New Tapestries, Redfern Gallery, London, UK

New Work: Paintings and Prints, Deutsche Bank, London, UK

Hoxton Music Festival: New Prints for Opera, Pelleas and Flight, UK

New Tapestries, The Groucho Club, London, UK

1998 The Beach (prints), Eagle Gallery, London, UK

Geography (new paintings), Eagle Gallery, London, UK

Lido, Etchings, Drypoints and Monoprints , Redfern Gallery, London, UK

New Paintings, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

New Paintings Prints and monoprints, Star Gallery, Lewes, Sussex, UK

1997 New Paintings, Redfern Gallery, London, UK

Ballinglen Paintings, Duncan Cargill, London, UK

1996 Arizona Road Series and New Work, Redfern Gallery, London, UK

Rye Art Gallery, Sussex, UK

1995 Breathing Again, Eagle Gallery, London, UK

1993 Star Gallery, Lewes, Sussex, UK

1992 New Work, Eton College, Eton, UK

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND ART FAIRS

2025 One Thing Touches Another, Maya Frodeman Gallery, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, USA, Curated by Emma Hill and Tom Hammick

2022 “HAÜSER - HOUSES” - Galerie Boisserée, Cologne, Germany with Christo & JeanneClaude, Peter Doig, Ralph Fleck, Patrick Hughes, José María Mellado, Joan Hernández Pijuan, Alex Katz, Imi Knoebel, Julian Opie, Mauricio Salcedo, Franziskus Wendels, Tom Westermann, Richard Woods.

2019-2020 Night Walking, The Eagle Gallery with Denise de Cordova, Samantha Cary and Fionna Murray

2019 Towner Gallery Mixed Exhibition Art London Art Tilmans, Spencer, Nash, Ravillious

The Moon, National Maritime Museum, London, UK

Under the Night Sky, Albertz Benda, New York, USA, with Peter Doig, Philip Guston, Chris Le Brun, Nan Goldin, Georg Baselitz, Alex Katz, Cindy Sherman, Mark Tobey, Christopher Wool, Yayoi Kusama, Ed Moses, Ralf Blakelock.

2016 Royal Academy: A Summer Show, London, UK

View from the Train, Glasgow Printmakers, Glasgow, UK

International Print Biennale, Newcastle, UK

IFAD Print Fair New York, USA, with Flowers

New York

Towards Night. A collection of over 60

artist celebrating the nocturnal, Towner Eastbourne, Eastbourne, UK

2016-2017 Surface Cutting, Block Printing show at The Royal Academy in the Members Rooms, London, UK

2013 Royal Academy London, Summer Show, London, UK

Multiplied 2013 with Rabley Fine Art, Christies South Kensington, London, UK

IFAD Print Fair New York, USA, with Flowers

New York

Cutlog Art Fair, Paris, France with Flowers Gallery

2012 Concerning Landscape, The Towner Eastbourne with Olafur Eliasson, Eastbourne, UK

Dreams of Here, Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, Brighton, UK with Andrjez Jackowski and Julian Bell

Daiwa Foundation Shortlist Exhibition, Daiwa House, London

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London, UK

The Mechanical Hand, Artist’s projects Pauper’s press. King’s Place, King’s Cross, London, UK

100 prints by 100 Artists Flowers East Gallery, London, UK

2011 Out of Drawing: Tom Hammick, Laura Carlin, Betsy Dadd, Zimmer Sterwart Gallery, Arundel, UK

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Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London, UK

New Woodcuts, Multiplied, Christies South

Kensington with The Eagle Gallery

New Woodcuts with Flowers at the New York Print Fair, The Armory NYC, New York, USA

2010 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London, UK

2009 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London, UK

2008 Drawing Breath: 10 Years of the Jerwood

Drawing Prize, Royal Academy, West of England

Leaping Down to Earth:12 Poems by Robert Vas

Dias responding to six pictures each by Tom Hammick and Stephen Chambers

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London, UK

The Print Fair, The Armoury New York, USA, with Flowers Gallery

2007 Drawing Breath: 10 Years of the Jerwood

Drawing Prize, NAS Galleries, Sydney, Australia

From Elsewhere, The Campden Gallery,

Chipping Campden, UK, with Matthew Burrows, Denise de Cordova and James Fisher

Drawing Breath: 10 Years of the Jerwood

Drawing Prize. Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore

Selected for The Sunday Times/Singer & Friedlander Watercolour Competition

2006 Four British Printmakers, Flowers New York, New York, USA

The London Art Fair, London, UK with Eagle Gallery

The Madrif Art Fair, Madrid, Spain with Eagle Gallery

Toronto Art Fair with Christina Parker Gallery

2004 Royal Academy Summer Show

Chelsea Art Fair/Jagged Art, London, UK

Toronto Art Fair/Studio 21 Fine Art

2000 Art 2000, Islington, London, UK with The Eagle Gallery and Advanced Graphics

Basel Art Fair, with The Eagle Gallery

1999 For Love or Money: Royal London Hospital, London, UK

Capital Prints, Atlantis Gallery, London, UK

1998 Contemporary British Painters, Connaught

Brown, London, UK

Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel, London, UK

1997 Contemporary British Painters, Connaught Brown, London

Deborah Pringle Prints, New Jersey, USA

Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Dublin, Ireland

1996-1997 Two-person show, with Annabel Gault: Joan

Prats Gallery, New York

1995 Three Contemporary Printmakers, Redfern Gallery, London

1994 East West Gallery, London

1993

One Oxford Street Gallery, Belfast, Ireland

Four Contemporary Printmakers , Redfern Gallery, London, UK

1992 Redfern Gallery, London, UK

1991 Redfern Gallery, London, UK

1990 Fresh Art, Islington, London, UK

Contemporary View, Royal College of Art, London, UK

1989 Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

COMPETITIONS, AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES

2024 Albers Foundation Residency, Connecticut, USA

2018-2020 Artist in Residence, Glyndebourne Opera

2018 Artist in Residence, Aldeburgh Music Festival, Snape Maltings

2017 Judge with Gill Saunders of Sketch

Artist in Residence Peacock Visual Arts

Aberdeen. Jan-November 2017

2016 Winner of the V&A Award, International Print

Bienalle Newcaste

2015 Artist in Residence, ENO, London

2014 Artist in Residence at the International Scuola di Grafica, Venice

Artist in Residence at St. John’s Printshop, St. John’s Newfoundland

Artist in Residence, ENO, London

2013 Discover The Valleys. Poster Campagaign.

Selected Artist

Shortlisted for The Threadneedle Prize

2012 Shortlisted for the Daiwa Foundation Art Prize

Shortlisted for The Threadneedle Prize

Selector for Bite

2011 Shortlisted for The Threadneedle Prize. (The Critics choice of both The Independent and The Times in 2011)

2009 Selected for the Northern Print Biennale, 2009, Newcastle

Winner of The Nexus Prize

2007 Judge for the DLA Painting Prize, Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, London

Monotype Prize, Originals 09, London

2006 Sovreign Arts Prize, Bonhams, London

Crear Arts Foundation Residency, Scotland

Selector for Artist of the Day, Flowers Central/ Selected: Helen Turner

2005 Residency to Newfoundland and Labrador, through the Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador and support from the Canada Council, with a placement at the St. Michael’s Print Workshop in St. John’s.

The RE Award

The Royal Academy London Print Fair Prize, Royal Academy Summer Show

2004 Jerwood Drawing Prize 2004, Prize-winner

2003 Joint Winner of the Sussex Open, 03

2002 Arts Council, Southern and South East Arts:

Major Development Award for monumental woodcuts, made at Hope Sufferance Studio, London

Selected for Drawing for All, Gainsborough’s House Drawing Open

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2001 Selected for the Jerwood Drawing Prize

2000 Selected for the Cheltenham

DrawingCompetition

1999 Robert Fraser Award

1998 Winston Churchill Fellowship

1997 Mc2 Print Exhibition, Norwich

1996 Ballinglen Arts Foundation Residency Award, Ireland

Lowick House Print Workshop Residency, Cumbria, UK

1995 Nat West Young Artists Awards - Finalist

1994 Artist in Residence on the M. V. Radnes from Avonmouth to the Arctic South East Arts, Travel Award to Yukon and Alaska

1993 Selected for Gilchrist Fisher Memorial Travel Fellowship

South East Arts, Travel Award to Yukon and Alaska

1990 Selected for Contemporary View, Royal College of Art, London

1989 Selected for the Spectator Award Exhibition

Bank of Montreal, Toronto

Benneton Collection

The Biblioteque National, Paris

Brighton Museum and Art Gallery

British Copyright Council

British Land

British Museum (Collection of Prints and Drawings)

BZW Bank, London

De Beers, London

Deutsche Bank

Canadian Provincial Gallery of New Brunswick

Chelsea & Westminster Hospital

Chinese Academy of Fine Art

The Conquest Hospital, Hastings

Clifford Chance, London

DLA & Partners

Dorchester Hospital

Estee Lauder Collection

The Groucho Club, London

Merryl Lynch

The Library of Congress Print Collection, USA

Minesotta Art Gallery Collection

New York Library Collection

PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS

Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador

Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Canada

Arts Council of Northern Ireland

Bank of America-London

The Royal London Hospital

Pallant House, West Sussex

Scripps Women’s Center, San Diego, U.S.A.

St. Mary’s University, Nova Scotia

The Towner, Eastbourne

University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, U.S.A.

Victoria and Albert Museum collection of Prints and Drawings

Yale Center for British Art, U.S.A.

DESIGNS AND PUBLIC COMMISSIONS

2016-2017 Portland Restaurant, London, Two Paintings

2013 Discover The Valleys Poster Campaign

2010 Glyndebourne Festival Opera, 6 Poster etchings

2009 Glyndebourne 75th Anniversary, 6 poster woodcuts

2004 Glyndebourne Opera, New Monoprints

2001 Mercedes, New Tapestries

1999 Glyndebourne Opera: Commissioned Etchings, Paintings and Tapestries

1998 Royal London Hospital, Outpatients installation of 16 Monoprints

1998 Conquest Hospital Hastings, installation of work

1997-1998 Royal London Hospital New Children’s Unit with Sarah Hammond

MAYA FRODEMAN GALLERY

This catalog complements Tom Hammick’s Exhibition UNFOLDING DAYS

Maya Frodeman Gallery

31 July - 14 September 2025 © 2025 All Rights Reserved Images courtesy of Tom Hammick LivingAir(detail),2024,Oilonlinen 66 SOUTH GLENWOOD STREET

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