Colin Bailey
About My Art
As well as paintings of traditional views of the historic Cinque ports of Rye and Hastings my limited edition prints also include hand coloured etchings of the greenhouses at Kew and the Royal Horticultural Society’s gardens at Wisley, as well as a set of large black and white etchings of St Pancras and the Kings Cross area of London.
Another section of work 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.
I work mainly from photographs which I take myself and edit, combine and manipulate to find a composite image. I then draw the image out in detail and apply washes of acrylic and finally oil paint. The paintings are mainly on prepared paper and are usually around 14 inches by 21 inches.
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