Day one of a new work on my easel
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Joseph and the Sunflowers
Pencil underdrawing and acrylic on gessoed panel. 80 x 80 cm. 2014
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Joseph and the Sunflowers is currently in progress in my studio. When finished it will join the series of new paintings that have drawn on the animated film of Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale I made for the 2013 Hay Festival.
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Shaping the hearts of sunflowers with sgrafitto
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Below: maquettes of Joseph used for the animated film, and currently serving as models for the paintings
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Paintings on the theme of Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale, soon to be seen in:
Telling Tales: new works by Clive Hicks-Jenkins
Oriel Tegfryn/Tegfryn Gallery
Menai Bridge
Opening May 10th
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The Covetous Devil
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Flight
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Flock
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Going Home
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Blue Fall
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The Tulip Garden
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Joseph Dreams of Home
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Soldier Joseph
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Above: King
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Clive Hicks-Jenkins' Artlog: 
oh fantastic sunflowers!!! i love the background color, it is *awesome*
Never thought I’d ever paint a background orange!
I’ve probably said this before but how I yearn to discover, if not live in, a town made from the bricks of childhood, or rather ‘childhoods’ I think I had more fun playing as a ‘grown-up?’ with Ted’s toys than as an occasionally lonely un-little girl.
As Jack might say, ‘the colours man!’
Love B xxx
You and I, Bernie, have the gift of never having lost (or forgotten) the child’s gift of play. It’s the only place where serious creativity can come from.
I love how this is looking so far 😀
Thank you, Chloe. The world of Stravinsky’s music for The Soldier’s Tale, with its text by Ramuz, has long inspired me. I made some monoprints of the soldier and the princess a few years ago, and then images to accompany a concert in Washington DC in 2012. But it was the animated film made for the Hay Festival last year that really got the creativity flowing, and the work you see here is what’s been emerging from the studio as a direct result of it.