LIMITED EDITION PRINTS, ORIGINAL ETCHINGS AND PAINTINGS BY COLIN BAILEY
Etchings, paintings, drawings and giclee prints for sale by UK printmaker Colin Bailey
COLIN BAILEY
ARTIST & PRINTMAKER
Limited edition prints.
Original etchings, paintings
and reproduction giclee prints
Original etchings, paintings
and reproduction giclee prints
ETCHINGS:
GICLEE:
PAINTINGS:
GICLEE:
PAINTINGS:
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 printing process.
Etchings are the prints produced by etching an image on a copper or zinc plate, using acid, filling the textures of the image with ink and then printing it on to paper by running it through a heavy press.
Recommended fine art materials & printmaking suppliers: Where to buy the cheapest canvas, paints & brushes, copper etching plates, paper & ink.
The Fallen Angel series of oil paintings have led to a number of enquiries about commissions. If you would like to commission an oil figure painting in a similar style as the Fallen Angel paintings from your own photograph please click on: Further Details
RYEPRESS
Next to the High street retro shop in Hastings High street. Limited edition prints of Hastings and Rye by Colin Bailey.
Open:
Wednesday to Sunday
Wednesday to Sunday
12.00 - 5.30
The Rye art gallery in Hastings!
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Greetings cards
Packs of 12 of the most popular images. A6 with envelopes(Blank inside)
Packs of 12 of the most popular images. A6 with envelopes(Blank inside)
Unique and individual, these intricate original pieces of hand crafted wire wrapped Jewellery reawaken ancient crafts to create stunning pieces of modern fine art. Using combinations of Copper, Bronze, Silver and Gold fill wire and incorporating gemstones and unique found objects Collette Murphy IS the Metal Fairy!
TIME AND TIDE the book
The early Rye, Hastings and Coastal paintings Now only £10 (48 pages)
The early Rye, Hastings and Coastal paintings Now only £10 (48 pages)
WHAT IS A LIMITED EDITION PRINT?
The terms Limited Edition Print, Original Print, and Reproduction Print are often confusing. Printing has always been associated with the mass production of the written word or image and so the phrase original print seems a contradiction in terms.
Printmaking as a form of fine art has become distinctly separate from printing as the process of reproducing multiple images.
Printmaker is the term used to describe an artist who works directly with the medium that will be printed from; as opposed to reproducing an image created in another medium.
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Artist’s Limited edition prints for sale by UK Printmaker
All original etchings on this site are drawn, etched and hand pulled by Colin Bailey.
All reproduction giclee prints on this site are scanned from Colin Bailey’s own original paintings and printed by Colin Bailey.
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 master etcher with a love of traditional painting and printmaking methods, techniques and skills, and with a printmaker's instinct for multiple images, Colin also utilises modern fine art technology and uses digital photography to capture pictures, views images and scenes that he translates into iconic paintings and etchings of the local area. Whilst using fine art giclee printing to reproduce his original paintings as limited edition fine art prints, Colin also continues to create the detailed tonal hand pulled 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 UK’s south east coast and established the Ryepress site in 2000 as an online portfolio to exhibit 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, whilst continuing to explore and develop the tonal possibilities of etchings on copper plate.
Beyond the traditional views and scenes of Rye & Hastings, Colin has created a portfolio of more experimental and almost abstract 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 Nudes
Colin Bailey exhibits frequently in various art exhibitions and with art groups in Rye, Hastings, Tenterden, East Sussex and the rest of the UK.
Ryepress is also now 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 unique handmade wire wrap fine art jewellery of Metalfairy, the Ryepress Studio and fine art gallery joins a growing collection of art galleries in Hastings. The Gallery exhibits all of Colin's limited edition original etchings, reproduction fine art 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 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.
Latest in the gallery: A series of soft ground figure etchings in a much looser style than my usual etchings. Drawn directly onto the copper plate using the soft ground technique these prints have the fresh, freer quality of pencil drawing. The first five are available at a special low price of between £30 and £45 unframed and are in limited editions of 50.
Words! Many of those who visit Ryepress are unaware that for a thankfully short time I was better known as a singer / songwriter locally than as an artist.. For several years I performed my satirical songs and parodies at gigs and open mic nights around Hastings and Rye. Over the last few years the gallery and my painting and printmaking have left me little time to rehearse and I have drifted out of practice. Never a natural musician, I placed far more importance on my lyrics than any singing or guitar playing abilities. I have gone through these lyrics and edited and adapted them as “poetry”. Influenced by Tom Lehrer, Billy Bragg, and Kirsty MacColl these are more John Cooper-Clarke than Keats or Wordsworth!
Colin Bailey July 2010
Are you an artist with a portfolio of water colours, drawings or oil / acrylic paintings that you would like to have reproduced as giclee prints?
The Piranesi-esque mechanism of the clock in the tower of St Mary’s in Rye, East Sussex.
Limited edition etching: edition of 75
12 inches x 18 inches
Unframed £195
12 inches x 18 inches
Unframed £195
Short listed for the 2010 Cork Street Open exhibition.
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