Collection: Clive Hicks-Jenkins

Clive Hicks-Jenkins

 

"Over the past twenty-five years, Clive Hicks-Jenkins has achieved renown in his native Wales and beyond as a painter of rare and powerful vision. It helps that he came to painting by an unusual route, having enjoyed a successful theatrical career - as actor, director, choreographer and stage designer – before the urge to paint became irresistible. Today his paintings of figures and animals are so striking, at least in part, because of the continual dialogue between design and dance, structure and movement. 

Clive’s complex creative process enhances this effect. If, for example, he is due to paint a horse, he will first draw the animal, then create a cardboard maquette from the drawing, articulating this model in such a way that its head, torso and limbs can be placed in positions impossible for even the most agile horse. Painting from such a maquette gives Clive control over the composition (and the vital balance between positive and negative space), while at the same time adding emotional expression and that feeling of suppressed movement. The resulting tension is less that of a coiled spring as of a spring caught in the moment of uncoiling.

This dynamism suits Clive’s penchant for narrative painting. In series after series he has explored the interactions of characters famous and obscure, from St George and the dragon to Hervé (a blind Breton monk) and his wolf companion. He takes inspiration from religious stories, Welsh legends, modern drama and medieval verse. The characters of Sir Gawain, his horse Gringolet, the Green Knight and the rest have haunted his imagination for years, but something about the multi-layered intricacy and artifice of the poem suggested printmaking rather than painting. And then, as if on cue, Dan came along with his experience and expertise, and a new creative adventure began."

James Russell 

 

 

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  • The Tiger's Bride
    The Tiger's Bride screen print by Clive Hicks-Jenkins.  Published by Penfold Press.
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  • Kevin and the Blackbird
    Kevin and the Blackbird - Penfold Press
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  • Christmas at Camelot
    Christmas at Camelot - Penfold Press
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  • The Green Knight Arrives
    The Green Knight Arrives, an original screen print by Clive Hicks-Jenkins and the Penfold Press
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  • The Green Knight Bows to Gawain's Blow
    The Green Knight Bows to Gawain's Blow, an original screen print by Clive Hicks-Jenkins and the Penfold Press
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  • The Green Knight's Head Lives
    The Green Knight's Head Lives, an original screen print by Clive Hicks-Jenkins and the Penfold Press
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  • The Armouring of Gawain
    The Armouring of Gawain, an original screen print by Clive Hicks-Jenkins and the Penfold Press
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  • The Travails
    The Travails, an original screen print by Clive Hicks-Jenkins and the Penfold Press
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  • Gawain Arrives at Fair Castle
    Gawain Arrives at Fair Castle - Penfold Press
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  • The Three Hunts
    The Three Hunts, an original screen print by Clive Hicks-Jenkins and the Penfold Press
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  • The Temptations
    The Temptations, an original screen print by Clive Hicks-Jenkins and the Penfold Press
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  • The Exchange
    The Exchange, an original screen print by Clive Hicks-Jenkins and the Penfold Press
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  • The Green Chapel
    The Green Chapel, an original screen print by Clive Hicks-Jenkins and the Penfold Press
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  • Gawain Staunches the Wound to His Neck
    Gawain Staunches the Wound to His Neck - Penfold Press
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  • Morgan le Fey
    Morgan le Fey, an original screen print by Clive Hicks-Jenkins for the Penfold Press
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  • The Stain of Sin
    The Stain of Sin, an original screen print by Clive Hicks-Jenkins and the Penfold Press
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  • Gingerbread House - Penfold Pin 4
    Gingerbread House - Penfold Pin 4 - Penfold Press
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  • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Catalogue
    Sir Gawain and the Green Knight catalogue, 14 prints on a theme by Clive Hicks-Jenkins
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  • Man Slain by a Tiger
    Man Slain by a Tiger - Penfold Press
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