Comments on: Clive Hicks-Jenkins has a blog!

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:21:16 +0000

Yeah, I love the owl, too! I was just thinking of your blog, and the three or four other artists’ blogs I follow: each so differnt, but each in their way a model of what a personal blog could be. I wish all poet-bloggers were as generous as you artist-bloggers seem to be.

By: marja-leena

marja-leena — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:37:03 +0000

Thanks Dave for the pointer! I remember your earlier mention and think his work is quite wonderful. I had a frisson of excitement over the owl – as you know, an owl woman has been in my own recent work. I wonder what influences may come from this.

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:35:19 +0000

Hey, even if you end up stopping after the completion of this painting or this series of paintings, it will still have been worthwhile, I think, and something you can link to in the same way you’ve included the “Temptations Diary,” as Arvind points out.

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:33:27 +0000

Good call. Yes, I think that Diary is very blog-like and I presume was part of what led him to consider blogging.

By: Clive Hicks-Jenkins

Clive Hicks-Jenkins — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:12:23 +0000

Thanks for the shout Dave. Very generous words. I’ll try and live up to your expectations, tough I fear you’ve set them rather high!

By: arvind

arvind — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:06:08 +0000

Love his black and white sketches!! It’s always nice to read an artist’s thoughts while looking at a particular work to appreciate it from a combined point of view. I personally prefer that because I will add my own interpretations anyways. Impossible to avoid that. So why lose out on the artist’s own thoughts as well.
Also, it looks like his other site with the paintings also has a “Texts” section with a “Temptations Diary” sub-section where he seems to be doing something similar to blogging as well.