Colin Bailey

Spring up Mermaid Street, Rye

Spring Up Mermaid Street, Rye

Spring up mermaid street, ryespring sunshine on the cobbles walking up mermaid street in rye, east sussex. jeakes house is on the right and the mermaid inn is further up on the left, round the corner!available as limited edition giclee print reproduced from acrylic original

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Added on 2nd of December 2009

Fallen Angel (Blue)

Fallen Angel (blue)

The fallen angel nudes are a series of paintings which draw on an eclectic range of influences including francis bacon, lucian freud, caravaggio, euan uglow, egon schiele and even the famous pin up artist of the 1940's an 1950's, alberto vargas!  the individually coloured backgrounds that give each painting its sub title are stained into the raw stretched linen with acrylic paint and the oil paint is then applied with brushes, rags, sponges and fingers to create a richly textured surface which becomes abstract in detail.

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Added on 2nd of December 2009

Fallen Angel (Red)

Fallen Angel (red)

Giclee print  (oil painting available £1250)one of the fallen angel series of paintings that draw on an eclectic range of influences that include francis bacon, lucian freud, caravaggio, euan uglow and even the famous pin up artist of the 1940's an 1950's, alberto vargas!  the painting techniques are bacon whilst the poses are a nostalgic nod to the glamour of the 1940's. the individually coloured backgrounds that give each painting its sub title are stained into the raw stretched linen with acrylic and the oil paint is then applied with brushes, rags, sponges and fingers.available now as a limited edition giclée print (edition of 250) from oil painting by colin bailey

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Added on 13th of November 2009

End of the Line

End Of The Line

End of the line - st pancras station clock tower rises  above the courtyard of midhope house on the hillview estate in kings cross in the 1980s. these 1890's tenement blocks were "decanted" in the late 1970's by camden council pending demolition. they were rapidly squatted by the survivors of  the tolmers square and huntley street squats who fought a drawn out and often bitter battle with camden council to save the buildings. grudgingly granted "short-life" status in the 1980s they went on to taken over by a housing association the following decade and thoroughly restored. the hillview estate is still home to many of these original squatters who have raised families in the flats originally condemned by camden council as unfit for families! limited edition etching (edition of 100) by colin bailey

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Added on 23rd of May 2008

Patch of Blue

Patch Of Blue

Patch of blue the close up and ambiguous detail of the side of an old wooden fishing boat on the beach near dungeness (opposite derek jarman's garden). the sun and wind in this bleak landscape have slowly stripped away the layers of paint that chart this boat's working life leaving a patch of blue that floats on a sea of orange like the map of some alien continent. limited edition giclée print (edition of 250) from oil painting by colin bailey

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Added on 23rd of May 2008

Slip of the LIne

Slip Of The Line

Slip of the line a line of ancient groynes and marches down to the sea across the shingle at winchelsea beach near rye. with a life span of 50 years these massive beams are buried 3/4 of their length in the constantly moving shingle, which otherwise would be slowly carried up the coast exposing the reclaimed area of romney marsh to the sea. limited edition giclée print (edition of 250) from oil painting by colin bailey

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Added on 23rd of May 2008

Old Town Summer Roofs, Hastings

Old Town Summer Roofs, Hastings

Old town summer roofs, hastings summer sunshine washes across the roofs of the old town in hastings. st clements church at the foot of the west hill dominates the scene. in the bottom right is courthouse street leading up to the jenny lind and the high street. limited edition giclée print (edition of 250) from oil painting by colin bailey

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Added on 23rd of May 2008

Slip Down Mermaid Street, Rye

Slip Down Mermaid Street, Rye

Slip down mermaid street, rye snow covering rye's most famous street. a slippery trip down the icy, cobbled mermaid street, past the snow dusted sign of  the mermaid inn on the right, and on to  the orange glow of lights in the windows of jeakes house. limited edition giclée print (edition of 250) from oil painting by colin bailey

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Added on 23rd of May 2008

Colin Bailey

Colin Bailey is an artist and printmaker living and working in Hastings, East Sussex after living in Rye for ten years and Kings Cross, London for fifteen years.

As a painter and etcher with a love of traditional methods and techniques, and with a printmaker's instinct for multiple images, Colin has also accepted the advance of recent technology and  makes full use of digital photography, high resolution scanning and archival quality giclée printing.

As a popular Rye artist Colin Bailey realised the wider appeal of this small picturesque area of England's south east coast and established Ryepress as a showcase for his Rye and St Pancras etchings. Now in Hastings, with a growing reputation as a Hastings artist he has expanded his portfolio and has produced a series of paintings which he scans and reproduces as limited edition fine art giclée prints, handling this whole process himself in order to maintain quality and artistic integrity.

As well as  traditional views of Rye & Hastings, there is also a series of paintings exploring the weather beaten coastal textures and structures of Rye Bay  (the East Sussex coast between Hastings and Dungeness); Ancient groynes, banks of constantly shifting shingle, fishing boats drying on the beach, and the prehistoric coast at the foot of the cliffs at Rock-a- Nore are examined in paintings with an almost abstract  scale and attention to detail. Closeup and often ambiguous, these images of peeling, faded paintwork, rusting metal and cracked, bleached wood chart the results of manmade and natural structures slowly breaking up through the relentless onslaught of rain, wind, sun, sea, sand and time.

Colin Bailey exhibits frequently in various venues and with local art groups in Rye, Hastings, Tenterden,  and East Sussex.

Registered: 2008-05-23

Location: Hastings

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