Clive Hicks-Jenkins is a painter and maker of artist's books whose work has become widely recognised for its painterly sensibility and emotional depth. He is one of the most interesting of a generation of artists whose work grows from rootedness in Wales yet is universal in its reference and relevance. He has been critically praised in The Independent, Modern Painters, Galleries and Art Review. Shelagh Hourahane, in Planet, has called him 'an inspiring and masterly painter', and Robert Macdonald has described his recent work as, 'One of the most powerful series of paintings and drawings produced in Wales in recent times'.

Hicks-Jenkins was winner of the Gulbenkian Welsh Art Prize, 1999 and a Creative Wales Award, 2002 from the Arts Council of Wales. He had solo exhibitions at Christ Church PictureGallery in Oxford, The Museum of Modern Art Wales, Newport Museum & Art Gallery and Brecknock Museum, and shows regularly at the Martin Tinney Gallery, the Attic Gallery & Anthony Hepworth Fine Art. His work is in the Museum of Modern Art Wales, the National Museum of Wales, New York Public Library and the V&A. He is a member of The Welsh Group and 56 Group Wales, and an Honorary Fellow of the University of Wales Aberystwyth School of Art.