Adventures in Books: Clive Hicks-Jenkins on Illustrating Heaney, Armitage and Homer. The Table, Hay on Wye, 18th May - 22nd June 2024 / by Clive Hicks-Jenkins

An exhibition of original artworks by Clive Hicks-Jenkins produced as illustrations for editions published by Folio Society, Faber & Faber and Design for Today. Included will be original pen and ink drawings for the 2023 Folio Society edition of Beowulf in the translation by Seamus Heaney, and illustrations made for Simon Armitage’s The Owl and the Nightingale and Hansel & Gretel: a Nightmare in Eight Scenes published by Faber & Faber. Additionally there will be maquettes preparatory to the artist’s work on Folio Society’s forthcoming editions of Homer’s The Odyssey and The Iliad in Emily Wilson’s critically lauded translations.