ANNE MAGILL (BRITISH, b.1962)
Midnight
signed and titled 'Anne Magill/Midnight' (back of frame)
charcoal
82.5 x 109.2 cm. (32 1/2 x 43 in.)

Provenance
With The Medici Galleries, London

Anne Magill was born in County Down, Northern Ireland, in 1962. She studied in Liverpool before moving to London to complete her degree at St Martin's School of Art. After graduating in 1984, she worked as an illustrator, quickly gaining recognition for her evocative charcoal and pastel drawings, winning the B&H Gold Illustration Awards four times.

While building her career as a commercial artist, Magill began experimenting with more personal charcoal drawings inspired by memories of her time with the army in Belfast, at Greenham Common, and in Paris during her studies. The rapid, reportage-style sketches she created during this period laid the foundation for a more mature approach, in which her atmospheric paintings were built from anonymous, intimate scenes that seemed like memories captured in time.

Magill's work has earned international acclaim, with her pieces held in collections by British Airways, Nike, Levi Strauss, Heineken, Canary Wharf, the Forte Group, SAP, as well as major private collections worldwide.