Cooltan Arts will be using funds from the sale to provide essential services for our participants

Cooltan Arts director, Michelle Baharier said:

Cooltan is delighted at the generosity of Maggi's gift. It's a gorgeous painting, and we are very excited about the auction as its sale, which will enable us to provide essential services for our participants, funding classes, events, art materials and equipment.

Buy an original Maggi Hambling oil painting and support Cooltan Arts

Maggi Hambling, one of the UK's leading artists and Patron of Cooltan Arts, is offering one of her new sea paintings Wave Breaking, January 2007 for sale to contribute towards essential funding for Cooltan.

The gift also celebrates the launch of Maggi Hambling's website, www.maggihambling.com and her exhibition, No Straight Lines, which opened at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge on 6 February and will run until 29 April.

Brian Sewell described Maggi Hambling's recent sea paintings in the Evening Standard:

Maggi Hambling ...offers exhilarating seascapes so generous in handling that one can almost hear the crash of waves on shingle, feel the spray and sense the drag of undertow. We are on the beach with her and, like Leonardo with his whirlpools, she and we focus hard on detail, on a particular wave as it approaches, rears and throws its weight at us, and through Hambling's eyes we see what we thought to be invisible. She has succeeded where Leonardo failed, and succeeded as a vigorous painter rather than a scrupulous draughtsman; she wields the material of paint in such ways as to transmute it into energetic water, spray and spume without for a moment losing its identity as paint. the relentless sea is the perfect subject for her, these canvases are the high point of a lifetime's labour.