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Clive Hicks-Jenkins was born in Newport, South Wales, in 1951. In the early part of his career, he was a choreographer and stage director. In the 1990's he turned away from theatre to concentrate on his underlining passion for painting.

His work has been praised by critics in The Independent, Modern Painters and Art Review. Simon Callow has called him ‘one of the most individual and complete artists of our time' and Nicholas Usherwood in Galleries has described his work as ‘reflective, expressive painting of the highest order.’  

For the past two years Clive Hicks-Jenkins has been making a series of fourteen screenprints based on the mystical medieval poem, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, using Simon Armitage’s 2007 translation published by Faber & Faber. The work has been a collaboration with Daniel Bugg, whose Penfold Press has produced and published the editions of prints. This exhibition is the second and concluding Gawain themed exhibition at Martin Tinney Gallery, with all 14 prints on show, accompanied by art historian James Russell’s insightful observations on the images. The studies and paintings made in the process of creating the prints are included in the exhibition.  

Clive writes: "Each screenprint is constructed from many layers of transparent ink, all carefully aligned and overprinted to make the complete image. Initially I make each layer of the artwork on a transparent sheet of lithographic film. There are up to twelve layers per print, and  they're rendered only in black and red as the intended colours don't enter the equation until the printing stage. Once the layers of film for a print have been completed, each is transferred to a micromesh ‘screen’ by Dan. Inks are mixed according to sample colours I produce, and the printing begins. No-one really has a clear idea of how anything will look until the image begins to emerge, layer by layer from the printing press. It can feel like magic."                                     Clive Hicks-Jenkins October 2017

  • Christmas at Camelot  - Clive Hicks-Jenkins
  • The Green Knight Arrives (screenprint) - Clive Hicks-Jenkins
  • The Green Knight Bows to Gawain's Blow (screenprint) - Clive Hicks-Jenkins
  • The Green Knight's Head Lives (screenprint) - Clive Hicks-Jenkins
  • The Armouring of Gawain (screenprint) - Clive Hicks-Jenkins
  • The Travails (screenprint) - Clive Hicks-Jenkins
  • Gawain Arrives at Fair Castle - Clive Hicks-Jenkins
  • The Three Hunts - Clive Hicks-Jenkins
  • The Temptations - Clive Hicks-Jenkins
  • The Exchange - Clive Hicks-Jenkins
  • The Green Chapel - Clive Hicks-Jenkins
  • Gawain Staunches the Wound to His Neck - Clive Hicks-Jenkins
  • Morgan Le Fay  - Clive Hicks-Jenkins
  • The Stain of Sin - Clive Hicks-Jenkins
  • Reynard and the Slaughtered Peacock: Study for The Three Hunts - Clive Hicks-Jenkins
  • Out of the Fire: Study for Morgan Le Fay - Clive Hicks-Jenkins
  • The Source: Study for The Green Chapel - Clive Hicks-Jenkins
  • Vessel: Study for The Exchange - Clive Hicks-Jenkins
  • Shadowed: Study for The Stain of Sin  - Clive Hicks-Jenkins
  • Gawain: Nocturne - Clive Hicks-Jenkins
  • The Happy Rabbits: Study for The Temptations - Clive Hicks-Jenkins
  • Suit of Lights: Study for Gawain Staunches the Wound to His Neck - Clive Hicks-Jenkins
  • Guinevere at Christmas - Clive Hicks-Jenkins
  • Fair Castle: Study for Gawain Arrives at Fair Castle - Clive Hicks-Jenkins
  • The Travails: Study - Clive Hicks-Jenkins
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