Limited edition fine art prints by artist printmaker Colin Bailey

ETCHINGS:
GICLEE:
PAINTINGS:

Rye Hastings Beachscapes Greenhouses St Pancras station Other
Rye Hastings RX Coastal Textures Groynes Life Drawings Other
Figure Painting Fallen Angel Nudes

SILVER WIRE CURLY CUFF - Original handmade, wrapped silver wire cuff

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. Limiting something which can be mass produced also attracts a certain amount of suspicion. So, why do artists produce limited edition prints?

In the early day of printing artists gratefully adopted various printing techniques to produce multiple images of their work, publicise their efforts and increase their income. These techniques developed separately from the technology of mass production printing. more

LIMITED EDITION FINE ART PRINTS, ORIGINAL ETCHINGS AND PAINTINGS BY COLIN BAILEY
Limited edition original etchings, oil paintings and fine art giclee prints for sale by UK artist printmaker 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 etcher with a love of traditional painting and printmaking methods, techniques and skills, and with a printmaker's instinct for multiple images, Colin also embraces modern fine art technology and uses digital photography to capture pictures and views and scenes that he translates into iconic paintings and etchings of the local area. Using fine art giclee printing to reproduce the original paintings as limited edition fine art prints, Colin still continues to create the detailed tonal and traditionally printed 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 south east coast of the UK and established the Ryepress site in 2000 as an online portfolio to display 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, scanning his paintings personally and carefully matching the colours to ensure the integrity and accuracy of the reproduction print.

Beyond the traditional views and scenes of Rye & Hastings, Colin has created a portfolio of more experimental 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 (2009) in which he explores an eclectic range of influence that include Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Caravaggio, Euan Uglow, Egon Schiele and even the famous pin up artist of the 1940s and 1950s, Alberto Vargas!

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: The Hastings roofs oil paintings; In the Pink and Autumn Roofs. Time and Tide the book of Rye and early Hastings pictures has just been reduced In price. And is now for the first time is available to download in PDF format (300 DPI resolution) for £5! The Fallen Angel series of oil paintings has led to a number of enquiries about commissions. If you would like to commission an oil figure painting in a similar style to the Fallen Angel paintings from a photograph of your own please follow this link: Commissions

Colin Bailey February 2010

Black and white Etching by Colin Bailey. St Pancras station clock tower rises above the courtyard of Midhope House on the Hillview estate in Kings Cross in the 1980s.

St Pancras Etchings and Giclee prints

Painting by Colin Bailey of Mermaid Street Rye, East Sussex. Tudor buildings and cobbles covered by an early morning winter fall of snow

Rye Giclee prints

Painting of Hastings, East Sussex. Summer sunshine bathes the roofs of houses in the old town. View from the East hill next to the Funicular railway

Hastings Giclee prints

Hastings, East Sussex. View down Croft road from the corner of Croft Road and Swan Terrace opposite St Clements Church. Black and White etching by Colin Bailey

Hastings Etchings

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

Art Materials

A list of recommended art materials suppliers: Where to buy the cheapest canvas, paints and brushes from the people I use!

COMMISSIONS

The Fallen Angel series of oil paintings have led to a number of enquiries as to whether I would do 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

COLIN BAILEY

ARTIST & PRINTMAKER

Limited edition fine art prints. Original etchings, paintings
and giclee prints

Oil on board painting and giclee print by Colin Bailey.Pink autumn light on buildings at the top end of Hastings Old Town.

Rye is a small hill top town in East Sussex, UK, on the River Rother, and at the western edge of Romney Marsh. Notable buildings in the town include St Mary's church, the Ypres Tower , Lamb House, The Mermaid Inn and Mermaid Street, Watchbell Street, and Church Square .more

Hastings Old Town, East Sussex Hastings is best known for its connection with the Battle of Hastings in 1066 which actually occurred north of the town at Senlac Hill in Battle. Hastings was one of the Cinque ports, It still has the largest beach based fishing fleet in England. more

Painting and giclee print by Colin Bailey. View past the Mermaid Inn down the cobbled Mermaid Street in Rye, East Sussex

New Limited edition prints for sale

Fine Art Figure paintings
Fallen Angel nudes

Oil Painting by Colin Bailey. Nude female figure in hunched up seated pose on Blue Background

Fallen Angel paintings