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Colin Bailey is a UK artist and printmaker living and working in Hastings, East Sussex after living in Rye for ten years and Kings Cross, London for fifteen years.
A fine art oil painter and etcher with a love of traditional painting and printmaking methods, techniques and skills, and with a printmaker's instinct for multiple images, Colin also embraces modern fine art technology and uses digital photography to capture pictures and views and scenes that he translates into iconic paintings and etchings of the local area. Using fine art giclee printing to reproduce the original paintings as limited edition fine art prints, Colin still continues to create the detailed tonal and traditionally printed original etchings for which he was originally best known.
As a popular Rye artist Colin Bailey realised the wider appeal of this small picturesque area of the south east coast of the UK and established the Ryepress site in 2000 as an online portfolio to display his Rye and St Pancras station limited edition etchings for sale to a wider audience than the UK. Now living in Hastings, and established as a Hastings artist he reproduces many of his new oil and acrylic paintings as fine art limited edition giclee prints, scanning his paintings personally and carefully matching the colours to ensure the integrity and accuracy of the reproduction print.
Beyond the traditional views and scenes of Rye & Hastings, Colin has created a portfolio of more experimental oil paintings exploring the weather beaten coastal textures and structures of Rye Bay (the East Sussex coast between Hastings and Dungeness), and a series of nudes: Fallen Angel (2009) in which he explores an eclectic range of influence that include Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Caravaggio, Euan Uglow, Egon Schiele and even the famous pin up artist of the 1940s and 1950s, Alberto Vargas!
Colin Bailey exhibits frequently in various art exhibitions and with art groups in Rye, Hastings, Tenterden, East Sussex and the rest of the UK.
Artist Information
Name:
Colin Bailey
Participation
(95)
Rank 119 out of 11735
Sex:
Male
Homepage:
http://www.ryepress.com
Country:United Kingdom
Colin has been a member since Tuesday 6th of May 2008
Link back to this portfolio:
http://Ryepress.voodoochilli.net
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Artist Skills
- Drawing
- Painting
- Digital Photography
- Traditional Photography
- Fine Art
- Graphic Design
- Computer Graphics
- Desktop Publishing
- Web Design
Artist Comments
“this is so clear, nice and dark, familiar, even narative without any human figure being in the frame. It's a great composition with great focal point. I really enjoy this one alot!”
Priscilla de Lima-Ledesma
“Hello Colin - even before I read your excellent commentary about this print, I recognized it as being somewhere up around Kings Cross. I used to live in London although I moved up to Scotland a year ago. I actually once lived in 'short life' housing. It was quite a nice house although cold in the winter!!”
Aine Scannell
“Checked out your website....very nice... love the 'Antique Shop'”
Georgia Hurst
“this is wicked, i thought it was a photograph at first!”
Naomi Ventress
“I also love the way you give a descriptive text with each image ...nice one Colin”
Georgia Hurst
“Colin I love all your work...well done. I hope you do well.Ive had to fave all of them, but I feel the copper print is the most accomplished”
Georgia Hurst
“brilliant piece I like it”
Anita Thomas
