Artist in mixed media, choreographer, stage designer and director, born in Newport, Monmouthshire, who was educated in theatre studies at Italia Conti School and Ballet Rambert. He began his career as a dancer, and eventually created productions for leading companies worldwide, as well as working in television and film. In the late 1980s Hicks-Jenkins “cut down on theatre and design work to explore other areas of creative activity. I began to make and exhibit masks.” In the early 1990s he met his partner Peter Wakelin, “my teacher and mentor, who gradually encouraged me to develop my painting, which is now my life.” Hicks-Jenkins’ masks shows included The Old Library, Cardiff, 1992–4; Oriel Myrrddin, Carmarthen, and tour, 1994–5; and Pennine Arts, Burnley, 1995.