Abigail Hampsey - Gold top

Abigail Hampsey is a working-class painter from Lancashire, UK. Her work explores landscapes of memory, loss, and rural traditions through painting, sculpture, and poetry. She has exhibited widely in the UK and is a member of the Contemporary British Painting Collective.

In Gold top, Abigail Hampsey positions the Jersey cow, a producer of rich, gold top milk, as a potent symbol of rural identity. She draws on the myth of an urban child unaware that milk comes from animals, to highlight the disconnect between city and countryside.
The work’s vivid palette, informed by Hampsey’s early mornings as a London baker during her MA studies, mirrors the surreal glow of pre-dawn urban life while celebrating the intense, often-overlooked vibrancy of the natural world. Through this convergence of lived experience, folklore, and saturated colour, the painting invites a re-evaluation of how rural life is perceived, remembered, and mythologised.

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