Clive Hicks-Jenkins has moved on from the eight final images for the cover of The Foliate Head, though you may still vote on your favorite one (or two) if you like. Now he has bent his own leafy mind to interior green men, or "green men in black and white."And we have now been given absolute freedom in almost every way to frolic with the book design. Pete Crowther, publisher of Stanza Press (UK), has given us his blessing to do whatever we like save change the dimensions of the book! So this means much pleasure for author, artist, and designer...
Andrew Wakelin designed the two books in Clive's honor which came out at the time of the retrospective show last year, and they are both beautiful--the gorgeous art book from Lund Humphries that accompanied the exhibition, Clive Hicks-Jenkins; and The Book of Ystwyth: Six poets on the art of Clive Hicks-Jenkins from Gray Mare and Carolina Wren. Andrew will also be in charge here. Andrew, Clive, and I are the conspirators who will have our say, and that will be great fun.
Nice. I would bet he is going to make a lot more of them before he's done! Maybe that streak of green men will come in handy; he can switch some to b&w.
ReplyDeleteClive is so productive that I doubt he will need to do so! And he says that some of them have given him ideas for his next project, a big stained glass commission.
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