Clive Hicks-Jenkins
Artist Clive Hicks-Jenkins is currently exhibiting a series of new works at the Martin Tinney Gallery in Cardiff.
Perhaps best know as a painter, Clive has recently been creating a series of limited edition screen prints, working with Dan Bugg of The Penfold Press.
The duo are currently working on a series of prints based on the theme of Gawain and the Green Knight, which was vividly translated for the 21st century by Simon Armitage.
The exhibition features the prints created to date alongside paintings and drawings.
Looking at 'The Green Knight Arrives' author James Russell explains...
"Clive looks beyond the poetry to explore the character and cultural implications of Gawain’s nemesis, in an intense portrait of mingled power and vulnerability. The upper body of the Green Knight fills the frame, his statuesque head and massive arm suggesting the might of an ancient god – but in a sensitive pose reminiscent of Rodin. That flowing beard hints at the graphic gravitas of a playing card king; look again and it is a river flowing through a tattooed forest. Our 21st century Green Knight is a modern primitive, whose identity is etched into his skin."
We were delighted that Clive contributed a series of illustrations to our second Random Spectacular journal and we're currently working on an expanded version of his interpretation of the Hansel & Gretel fairy tale which we will publish in November. Sign up for our Random Spectacular newsletter for details of this.
We'll also exhibit a selection of Clive's prints, in association with The Penfold Press, at our next St Jude's In The City exhibition at the Bankside Gallery in November.
Gawain and The Green Night: Clive Hicks-Jenkins and The Penfold Press continues until 1st October 2016 at Martin Tinney Gallery, 18 St Andrew's Crescent, Cardiff, CF10 3DD. Find out more
'The Green Knight's Head Lives' by Clive Hicks-Jenkins
Gouache and pencil on board, 55cm x 55cm
'The Green Knight Arrives' by Clive Hicks-Jenkins
Screenprint, 55cm x 55cm
Original works by Mark Hearld and Emily Sutton
As part of our Editions & Objects exhibition at Yorkshire Sculpture Park we have included a selection of original works by artists Mark Hearld and Emily Sutton which we're pleased to share below.
If you'd like to discuss the purchase of any of these framed originals, please contact Yorkshire Sculpture Park by telephone on 01924 832631.
Mark Hearld 'Swan Flight' original collage
Paper size: 75 x 56cm Framed size: 92 x 72cm £950.00 (see photographs below for framing style)
Emily Sutton 'Comptoir de la Gastronomie, Paris' original ink and watercolour
Paper size: 48 x 38cm Framed size: 65 x 56cm £725.00
Mark Hearld 'Hooded Crow, Hadrian's Villa' original collage
Paper size: 75 x 56cm Framed size: 92 x 72cm £950.00 (photographed here in situ at YSP)
Mark Hearld 'Le Meridiana Wild Boar' original collage
Paper size: 75 x 56cm Framed size: 92 x 72cm £950.00 (photographed here in situ at YSP)
Emily Sutton 'La Chapellerie, Paris' original watercolour
Paper size: 48 x 38cm Framed size: 65 x 56cm £725.00
Mark Hearld’s Platters
Further to our post about Mark Hearld's now sold out slipcast pigeons for our Editions & Objects exhibition at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, we're pleased to share details of the platters Mark has also produced.
The 38cm diameter platters are individually decorated using cobalt manganese and copper stains, each one slipcast in Stoke-On-Trent and inspired by mid-20th Century English Delft ceramics. Priced at £395.00 each, the platters are available from Yorkshire Sculpture Park - further details via their website or by telephoning 01924 832631.
Mark Hearld slipcast platter - Cockerel One
Mark Hearld slipcast platter - Cockerel One (reverse)
Mark Hearld slipcast platter - Crow
Mark Hearld slipcast platter - Crow (reverse)
Mark Hearld slipcast platter - Owl One
Mark Hearld slipcast platter - Owl One (reverse)
Mark Hearld slipcast platter - Doe
Mark Hearld slipcast platter - Doe (reverse)
Mark Hearld slipcast platter - Hoopoe One
Mark Hearld slipcast platter - Hoopoe One (reverse)
Mark Hearld slipcast platter - Song Thrush
Mark Hearld slipcast platter - Song Thrush (reverse)
Mark Hearld slipcast platter - Owl Two
Mark Hearld slipcast platter - Owl Two (reverse)
Mark Hearld slipcast platter - Hoopoe Two
Mark Hearld slipcast platter - Hoopoe Two (reverse)
Many thanks to Jonty Wilde for photographing these slipcast platters.
Recent watercolours
I'm pleased to share details of some recent watercolours, the latest original works created in my studio.
In addition to two paintings currently being exhibited in Edinburgh as part of The Scottish Gallery's Flora Depicta exhibition, the three new watercolours shown below will feature in Off The Wall, an exhibition in London at The Bankside Gallery which opens on 29th July featuring the work of members of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers and the Royal Watercolour Society. I was delighted to be elected to the latter earlier this year. Find out more
If you'd like to find out more about these three new watercolours, please contact The Bankside Gallery on 020 7928 7521.
Striped Cups with Spring Flowers (watercolour)
Striped Cups with Spring Flowers (watercolour - detail)
Tuscan and Umbrian Seedheads, La Cavière (watercolour)
Tuscan and Umbrian Seedheads, La Cavière (watercolour - detail)
New Town Cup with Feathers and Seedheads (watercolour)
New Town Cup with Feathers and Seedheads (watercolour - detail)
Flora Depicta
I'm currently exhibiting as part of Flora Depicta, a celebration of botanical art at The Scottish Gallery in Edinburgh, which features work from twenty artists working across a variety of mediums.
And I'm honoured that a room in the gallery has been dedicated to my work, featuring a selection of botanically inspired prints plus two new watercolours, Wooden Dish with Uist Pebbles and Ramsons with Thistle Pot. These are the first paintings I've exhibited since election to the Royal Watercolour Society.
The exhibition will run from 6th July until 30th July at The Scottish Gallery, 16 Dundas Street, Edinburgh EH3 6HZ. The catalogue can be viewed online.
'Wooden Dish with Uist Pebbles' watercolour
'Wooden Dish with Uist Pebbles' watercolour (detail)
'Ramsons with Thistle Pot' watercolour
'Ramsons with Thistle Pot' watercolour (detail)
A view of part of the room of my work at The Scottish Gallery with a sculptural work by Andrea Geile.
'Island Summer' screen print
'Sollas Sands' linocut
David Cass ‘Surface’
'Surface', an exhibition of new work by David Cass has just opened at Gayfield Creative in Edinburgh, with profits going towards the creation of an informative public exhibition Cass has been working on slated to take place in Florence this coming November.
Created using non-traditional methods and painted on unconventional surfaces, these repetitive, layered artworks are unified by their exclusive depiction of water.
Bodies of water that Cass has surveyed whilst travelling: the Atlantic from Cádiz, the Adriatic from Dalmatia, the Mediterranean from Liguria. Many too, are abstracted visions of the English Channel ('Mor breizh') - the strip of water the artist must cross to reach France, Belgium, Spain and Italy - where he sources the materials and supports upon which he works. From Paris’ plethora of antique shops to Brussels’ frequent flea-markets, Cass sources every-day items (wooden, metal, and paper planes) suitable to be brought back to his studio and transformed into the foundation of each artwork.
Cass gathers ordinary objects that speak of function and familiarity: tabletops, drawer bases, trunk lids, roadsigns, books & papers. Aged items and objects that describe a lifetime of use in their worn grains – a kind of repetition that is mirrored in Cass’ mark-making and obsessive documentation of a singular subject.
'Surface' runs until 3rd May 2016 at Gayfield Creative, Gayfield Square, Edinburgh. Find out more
Emily Sutton & Mark Hearld
This Friday sees the opening of Emily Sutton and Mark Hearld's latest exhibition at their York home.
The duo will be exhibiting new drawings, paintings, collages, prints and ceramics. The opening event will run from 6-9pm on Friday 15th April 2016 and doors will then be open 10-6 on Saturday 16th April, 11-5 on Sunday 17th April and then the following Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th April 2016. Visit the exhibition at 104 The Mount, York YO24 1AR.
We'll post further images of the work exhibited soon. In the meantime, if you're not able to visit you might like to explore our website for fabrics and prints by Emily and Mark. Both artists will be exhibiting at St Jude's exhibitions in Yorkshire and London later in 2016. Sign up for our e-mail newsletter for details of these events.
We'll post soon on the making of the poster created for the exhibition (see below) at Tilley Print in Ledbury.
Emily Sutton 'The Yellow Fireplace' watercolour drawing
Mark Hearld 'Lapwings' Nest' collage
Emily Sutton 'The Golden Seahorse' drawing
Mark Hearld 'Swan Flight' collage
Emily Sutton 'Lumber Room Jug' watercolour drawing
Mark Hearld 'Redshank' collage
Emily Sutton and Mark Hearld's letterpress poster, printed at Tilley Print in Ledbury
