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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Lucy Knight

‘It went black’: Maggi Hambling describes life as artist after finger amputation

Maggi Hambling in front of her one of her paintings.
Maggi Hambling before her injury, which happened when she fell down the stairs with a glass in her hand. Photograph: Graeme Robertson/The Guardian

Maggi Hambling’s morning routine involves making one drawing with her non-dominant left hand as soon as she gets up – a practice that has come in particularly useful lately, after having her little finger on her right hand amputated.

“On November the 17th, I fell down the stairs, and I had a glass in my hand. And it’s cut through the hand and cut through the little finger,” she told the audience at Charleston festival in East Sussex, holding up her four-fingered hand.

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