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Tom Hammick

Painter and a printmaker.

Tom Hammick
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A landscape of pink plants and two figures waving a towel on the seashore.

Shelter

2022
Dimensions in centimetres height152 × width195.5 cm / Dimensions in inches height60 × width76 ″
Medium oil on canvas

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A landscape of pink plants and two figures waving a towel on the seashore.
Artist Tom Hammick working on one of his paintings.

Two figures, in the searing heat of a summer’s day on the Tuscan coast, build a simple blanket roof on sticks to protect them from the sun’s rays. Scratchy triffid and tumbleweed-like plants, cling to the parched earth with their shallow roots. Drawing on the hoof in this place near Pisa,overlooking The Ligurian Sea, reminded me of a setting in a dystopian JG Ballard short story.