Colin Bailey
Colin Bailey is a painter/printmaker living and working in Hastings after living in Rye for 10 years. He is well known locally for his quality limited edition giclee prints of traditional views of the historic Cinque ports of Rye, Hastings and the East Sussex coast .
As well as picturesque street scenes his work also explores the textures and structures of Rye Bay (the East Sussex coast between Hastings and Dungeness). Ancient groynes, derelict fishing boats and the prehistoric coast at the foot of the cliffs at Rock-a-Nore are explored in detailed black and white etchings and almost abstract paintings. Close-up and often ambiguous, these pictures of peeling, faded paintwork, rusting metal and cracked, bleached wood chart the results of man-made and natural structures slowly breaking up through weather and neglect.
He works mainly from photographs which he takes himself and edits, combining and manipulating to find a composite image. He then draws the image out in detail and applies washes of acrylic, and finally oil, paint. The paintings are mainly on prepared paper and are usually around 14 inches by 21 inches.
Personal History
1957 Born Southend,Essex
1967-1977 Lived in Singapore, Epsom, South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland and Zambia
1978-1981 BA (Hons) Communication Design; North East London Polytechnic
1984-1990 Teaching Etching and Photography at the Working Men’s College, Camden
1979-1993 Living on the Hillview Estate, Kings Cross, London
1993 Moved to Rye, East Sussex
2005 Moved to Hastings, East Sussex
Exhibitions
1983 Theatre Royal, Stratford East
1985 END OF THE LINE, Bloomsbury Theatre
CONSEQUENCES, Vortex Gallery, Stoke Newington
1986 THINGS FALL APART, Fallen Angel, Islington
Print maker’s Council 21st Birthday , Exhibition, Royal Festival Hall
1987 THE DELUGE, Fallen Angel, Islington
SENSE OF FEELING, Bloomsbury Crypt, Holborn
1992 BANKSIDE OPEN, Bankside Gallery London
1993 Rye Society of Artists Summer Show,
1996 Weald of Kent Art Group, Tenterden
1998 MAKING AN IMPRESSION, Rye Art Gallery
2005 Stratton Gallery, Hastings
2006 SoCo Gallery, Hastings
PATCH OF BLUE White Rock Theatre Gallery, Hastings
Various exhibitions in restaurants, wine bars, cafes, pubs, hotels etc in London and East Sussex
Member of:
Rye Tuesday Painters, Weald of Kent Art Group, Battle Art Group. South Coast Artists, Printmakers Council
If you would like further information, or to place an order/commission, please email:
colin.bailey@1066artgallery.co.uk
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