| Colin Bailey |
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Born Southend 1957
Printmaker/painter/photographer; Limited edition etchings, Paintings and Giclee prints of London,Rye, Hastings and textural images of coastal structures.
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| About the Artist |
Mainly a printmaker specialising in detailed tonal etchings using elaborate combinations of soft ground and hard ground techniques. Picturesque views of Rye, Hastings and Kings Cross and more abstract images of peeling, faded paintwork, broken glass, rust and cracked, bleached wood.
It is these close-up and often ambiguous images; the result of manmade and natural structures slowly breaking up through weather and neglect that will be the main focus of future work...
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Even Keel
2005 Acrylic 30 x 45 |
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Remains of an old boat keel at Dungerness |
RX 403
2006 Oil on Canvas 61 x 92 |
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Side of fishing boat on beach at Hastings (RX is the registration code for Rye and Hastings) |
Canute
2007 Oil on paper 52 x 71 |
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Splintered wooden groyne holding back the shingle and the sea on the coast near Rye. |
Cracking Up
2006 Oil on Paper 25 x 38 |
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Peeling paint on the side of a fishing boat on Hastings beach. |
FLAKES OF TIME
2007 Oil on Paper 50 x 75 |
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Peeling flakes of old paint curl away from the side of a fishing boat on Hastings beach |
Stick and Stones
2007 Oil on canvas 91 x 61 |
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Groynes on the beach at Fairlight near Hastings |
CUT THE MUSTARD
2007 Oil on board 51 x 76 |
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Side of a rusting fishing boat on Hastings beach |
ST Pancras Cloclocktower
1988 Etching 30 x 40 |
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St Pancras station clocktower |
East Hill Snow
2008 Oil on Canvas 60 x 90 |
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Snow covering the East Hill funicular railway and Hastings Old Town |
On the Rocks
2009 Oil on Canvas 60 x 90 |
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Nude on the rocks |
Top of the stairs
2009 Oil on Canvas 60 x 90 |
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www.ryepress.com/top-of-the-stairs.html |
FALLEN ANGEL 1 (Blue)
2009 Oil on Linen 90 x 60 |
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FALLEN ANGEL 6 (Black)
2009 Oil on Canvas 75 x 75 |
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The most recent of the Fallen Angel series of nudes - www.ryepress.com/fallen-angel.html
A series of paintings that draw on an eclectic range of influences that include Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Caravaggio 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. |
Fallen Angel 7 (Red)
2009 Oil on Canvas 60 x 90 |
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Another of the Fallen angel series of nudes. www.ryepress.com/fallen-angel.html A series of paintings that draw on an eclectic range of influences that include Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Caravaggio 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. |
Torso 1
2009 Oil on Canvas 60 x 90 |
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End of the Line
1988 Etching 30cm x 40cm |
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St Pancras station clock tower rises majestically 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!
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| Education and biography |
| Lived in Singapore,South Africa, Lesotho and Zambia before returning to England to go to Art School.Studied at Byam Shaw School of Art and North East London Polytechnic. Taught Etching and also Photography at Working Mens College. Lived for 15 years in Kings Cross before moving to Rye and lately Hastings. |
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| Future shows |
Dragon Bar, Hastings
SoCo Gallery Hastings
Stables Theatre, Hastings
River Cafe, Rye
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Website: www.ryepress.com |
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