ETCHINGS: Rye Hastings Beachscapes Greenhouses St Pancras station Other
GICLEE: Rye Hastings RX Coastal Textures Groynes Figure Figure Painting Other
GICLEE: Rye Hastings RX Coastal Textures Groynes Figure Figure Painting Other
Colin Bailey is a British 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 modern art technology and makes full use of digital photography, high resolution scanning and archival quality giclee printing to reproduce his original paintings as limited edition fine art prints. At the same time Colin continues to create the detailed tonal 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 England's south east coast and established Ryepress as an online portfolio for his Rye and St Pancras station original etchings. Now in Hastings, with a growing reputation 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.
As well as traditional views of Rye & Hastings, Colin is also building a portfolio of more experimental 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. Close-up and often ambiguous, these images of peeling, faded paintwork, rusting metal and cracked, bleached wood chart the results of man-made and natural structures slowly breaking up through the relentless onslaught of rain, wind, sun, sea, sand and time.
Colin Bailey exhibits frequently in various art exhibitions and with art groups in Rye, Hastings, Tenterden, and East Sussex. See Exhibitions for details of forthcoming shows.
Ryepress has now opened as a fine art gallery and original print studio in the centre of Hastings old town. Situated next to the well known Retro shop in Hastings High street, and including the wire wrap jewellery of Seacandy, the Ryepress Studio and art gallery joins a growing collection of art galleries in Hastings. The Gallery exhibits all of Colin's limited edition original etchings, reproduction giclee prints, original oil and acrylic paintings as well as giclee printed greeting cards of his recent paintings exclusive to the Ryepress art gallery.
With the eponymous Rye press now installed in the rear of the art gallery, the original print studio also features ad-hoc etching demonstrations. Questions about printmaking methods are encouraged and visitors are offered a unique opportunity to see the etching process in action, preview proof prints of the various stages of each new etching and in many cases handle the original etched copper plates. See What is an etching? for a detailed explanation of the etching process and see Etchings or Giclee for thumbnails of Colin's work.
New work currently being exhibited includes the new series of Hastings etchings which will soon be available as a portfolio set with matching edition numbers. Also currently being exhibited are the finished Coastal Textures series of paintings based on rocks at Rock-a-Nore and a set of oil on canvas Figure paintings For a thumbnail index to the Limited edition fine art prints and an explanation as to what is an original print and what is a reproduction print please see Prints. Also if you get a spare minute please vote for me in this week's Saatchi Showdown
Ryepress is participating in the new Hastings Galleries First Thursday initiative and will be opening until late on the first Thursday of every month in conjunction with a range of galleries in Hastings Old Town.
Colin Bailey July 2009
LIMITED EDITION FINE ART PRINTS, ORIGINAL ETCHINGS AND PAINTINGS BY COLIN BAILEY
Limited edition original etchings, paintings and fine art giclee prints by British artist printmaker Colin Bailey
Limited edition original etchings, paintings and fine art giclee prints by British artist printmaker Colin Bailey
AN INTRODUCTION TO ETCHING
Etching is one of the oldest and most satisfying forms of printmaking and in the hands of a expert can deliver intricacies of line and tone unrivalled by any other printimaking process. From time to time Ryepress will be running short introductions to etching at the studio in Hastings. See Etching for an explanation of the etching process
COLIN BAILEY
ARTIST & PRINTMAKER
Limited edition fine art prints. Original etchings, paintings
and giclee prints
and giclee prints
A list of recommended art materials suppliers: Where to buy the cheapest canvas, paints and brushes from the people I use!
NEW!
Fine Art Figure paintings:
Oil on Canvas
24 inches x 36 inches
Fine Art Figure paintings:
Oil on Canvas
24 inches x 36 inches