'Two Figures for Annunciation,
'Ynysypandy'
Artists
Arthur Giardelli
Brendan Burns
Carol Hiles
Christine Kinsey
Chris Shurrock
Clive Hicks-Jenkins
Dennis Gardner
Dilys Jackson
Emrys Williams
Glyn Jones
Harvey Hood
John Selway
Martyn Jones
Peter Seabourne
Peter Spriggs
Robert Harding
Robert Alwyn Hughes
Sue Hunt
Sue Williams
Tom Piper
Antonia Spowers
Richard Renshaw
Ken Elias
"As with any creative endeavour, when embarking on a painting there comes a point at which most of the possibilities have to be jettisoned so that work can develop the remaining, carefully selected ideas. This might be called by some 'the point of no return', but that would be simplistic because paint has a life of its own, and no matter how well planned a project is, massive changes can and do take place during the painting stage. Creative upheavals can carry the artist to unexpected places, and the finished painting may end up being far from what was originally envisaged. This is good. It's what makes the process both unpredictable and exhilarating. It can also result in despair. It has always been important to me that no matter how technically good I may get at the business of painting, I continue to lay myself open to the currents that carry me in new directions. "I learn and unlearn" has become a kind of mantra. Every time I reach a point where skill becomes even close to practised and reliable, I feel the urge to derail the train".
Clive Hicks-Jenkins was born in Newport. From his early twenties he was a choreographer, director and stage designer. He returned to Wales permanently in the late 1980's to concentrate on his work as an artist. His work has been selected for the Royal Academy, the Wales Drawing Biennale and the National Eisteddfod. He has also had solo exhibitions at Newport Museum & Art Gallery, Newport. Brecknock Museum. MOMA Mychynleth, Christ Church Picture Gallery in Oxford, Martin Tinney Gallery Cardiff, Attic Gallery Swansea, and Anthony Hepworth Fine Art in Bath.
He is a member of The Welsh Group. Hicks-Jenkins was winner of the Gulbenkian Welsh Art Prize in 1999 and received a Creative Wales Award from the Arts Council of Wales. His work is in the collections of MOMA Wales, Newport Museum & Art Gallery, The University of Glamorgan, The National Library of Wales, Brecknock Art Trust and the Contemporary Art Society Wales. His limited edition artist's books created with The Old Stile Press are in the New York Public Library, the V&A London, The National Museums and Galleries Wales, the British Library and many other collections world wide.