His paintings are represented in all the main public collections in Wales, as well as others in the United Kingdom, and his artist's books are found in libraries internationally.

A retrospective exhibition comprising some 200 works from across the artist's career loaned from public and private collections was held by the National Library of Wales in 2011 to coincide with his sixtieth birthday.

[1] A substantial multi-author book devoted to his work was published by Lund Humphries in 2011, in which Simon Callow called him "one of the most individual and complete artists of our time".

[3] He contributed a short autobiographical essay to a substantial monograph about his work, Clive Hicks-Jenkins by Simon Callow et al (Lund Humphries, 2011).

[13] Another sequence of works titled the Temptations of Solitude examined present-day traumas and injustices through the lives of the desert fathers of Egypt.

[18] In 2018 he completed a major project to produce a series of 14 screenprints with the Penfold Press tracing the story of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, based on the 2008 translation of the medieval poem by Simon Armitage.

[21] In 2019 he collaborated with poet Simon Armitage on an illustrated book retelling the story of Hansel and Gretel, published by Design for Today.

[26] He has produced cover images and text decorations for commercially published books, such as Val/Orson, Thaliad, The Foliate Head, Glimmerglass, Maze of Blood and The Book of the Red King all by Marly Youmans, Star-Shot by Mary-Ann Constantine, Witch and Judas by Damian Walford Davies and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon Armitage.