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Colin Bailey
is an artist & printmaker living and working in Hastings after living in
Rye for ten years and Kings Cross, London for fifteen years. Originally
an etcher, and still with a printmaker’s instinct for multiple images,
Colin has embraced the advance of recent technology through the use of
digital photography, high resolution scanning and archival quality
giclée printing.
As well as paintings of traditional views of Rye & Hastings which he
reproduces as limited edition giclée prints, there is now a series of
paintings exploring the 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 venues in Rye, Hastings and East Sussex.
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