Essays and Interviews

The print captures the moment of the drama when the game changes; all the rules of the natural world broken. The blade has descended, flesh has pa...

Arthurian legend is full of warriors, but the Green Knight is unique – unearthly, even monstrous, yet still a knight. His unexpected arrival duri...

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

James Russell, art historian and curator of both the Eric Ravilious and Edward Bawden exhibitions at Dulwich Picture Gallery, looks at the first print in the series - Christmas at Camelot.

    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 ...

  Hi Dan, tell me about the Penfold Press, what is it? It's a small scale print studio that I run by myself. I work mainly in screenprint, but als...

    Over the past twenty-five years Clive Hicks-Jenkins has achieved renown in his native Wales and beyond as a painter of rare vision. He came to...