Angus Hampel

Because we walk on the earth, we tend to think we are separate. If we were rooted, like trees, we might have a different idea of our interconnection. The mystery is that both ideas are true. Each person, each tree, each wave, each golden bird is an irrepeatable marvel, while at the same time and at the same place, remaining part of everything.

My paintings are silent arisings. They are the wild and jubilant dances. They are attempts to show the wonder we forget when we look at the world and its on-going creation. It all depends on where you stand. Suddenly olives appear like fireflies, birds flash before our eyes and golden suns or moons dazzle. Everything is extraordinary.

Gold helps here. It crosses the bridge between the secular and the spiritual. It conjures images of money and Midas, but also Greek orthodox icons and Buddhas.

Trees come into being and recede into red earth and watery sky. Seas swell into individual waves, or disappear into nothingness. A bird shoots across the sky. If we don’t pause, we’ll miss it all. What was that? That was your life, my friend. Did you notice it?

I studied Latin and Greek at Oxford University, and then worked as a journalist, copy-writer and crossword setter for a few years. On...

2019 The Other Art Fair, Chicago
2018 Kraemer´sche Kunstmühle, Munich
Kunst im Treppenhaus, Munich
2017 Gallery 54, London
National Original Print Exhibition, Bankside, London
Wigdor Law, New York
Albany, The Bahamas
2016 MME Fine Art, New York
Patchings Art Centre, Nottingham
2015 Serena Morton, London
The Artist Magazine Exhibition, Nottingham
Double Winner of Artist’s Award
2014 Serena Morton, London
2010 Morton Metropolis, London
2008 Guggleton Gallery, Dorset
2007 Jorgensen Gallery, Dublin
2006 Petley Fine Art, Cork Street, London
Guggleton Gallery, Dorset
2005 Jorgensen Gallery, Dublin
Petley Fine Art, Cork Street, London
Guggleton Gallery, Dorset
2004 Hotel Pitti Palace Hotel, Florence
Petley Fine Art, Cork Street, London
2003 Panter and Hall, London
2002 Vertigo Gallery, London
The Florence Academy of Art