Behind the Print

Artists have been making screen prints since the early twentieth century, but they were made more widely known during the 1950's and 60's as a new...

UK illustrator John Broadley’s new print collaboration with Penfold Press is, amazingly, his first venture into the world of original printmaking....

Angela Harding’s new prints, loosely a triptych, show off the best of both Angela as an illustrator and Dan as a printer. The prints each work alo...

Hi Clive, when did your fascination with Sir Gawain first begin? I’d once read a retelling-for-children of the tale, the only bit of which that h...

James Russell talks to Emily Sutton to find out more about her eleven year collaboration with the Penfold Press and the success of her Alphabet Se...

Clive Hicks-Jenkins sits below a framed copy of The Exchange   Expert framers Les Prince and Dave Harrison suggest the essential elements to consi...

This article first appeared in Issue 5 of Pressing Matters magazine.    With printmaking all too often a solitary endeavour, it's refreshing to he...

In the second part of their conversation, Clive Hicks-Jenkins and Edward Corey discuss Ed's latest novel The Swallowed Man and the influence pupp...

Clive Hicks-Jenkins and writer Ed Carey have become fast friends since working together on These Our Monsters, an anthology of short stories for E...

The Stain of Sin. Gouache and pencil crayon. Private collection.   Quite early in my career as a painter, I began examining ways to create narrat...

Hi Dan, tell me about the Penfold Press, what is it? How does it work? I suppose the best way to describe it would be as a small scale print pub...

The Tiger's Bride, a new screen print by Clive Hicks-Jenkins is available from today. The print draws on Clive's love of Staffordshire Pottery. "...