Maggi Hambling - A Life in Pictures

After a lifetime of hell-raising, hard living and even harder drinking, one of Britain's top female artists reflects on those things that have been closest to her and which are now gone - her parents, cherished friends such as George Melly, her trademark cigarette and, most touchingly, her lover and muse Henrietta Moraes.

You can read Maggi Hambling's interview in today's Observer here.