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 print the 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.
LIMITED EDITION PRINTS, ORIGINAL ETCHINGS AND PAINTINGS BY COLIN BAILEY
Etchings, paintings, drawings and giclee prints for sale by UK Artist printmaker Colin Bailey
COLIN BAILEY
ARTIST & PRINTMAKER
Limited edition prints.
Original etchings, paintings
and reproduction giclee prints
Original etchings, paintings
and reproduction giclee prints
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 fine art 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 etching press.
Rye - Paintings & fine art giclee prints
Hastings - Limited edition etchings
Rye - Limited edition etchings
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 and techniques 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 etching techniques and methods.
News: Latest in the gallery: A long time has gone by without updating the site and the new work for inclusion has been piling up. Over the last month TWO paintings have been stolen from the gallery - so I must be doing something right!
Colin Bailey January 2012
Hastings - Paintings & fine art giclee prints
RYE AND HASTINGS GICLEE PRINTS AND ETCHINGS
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.
What is Etching?
What are Limited edition prints?
What are etchings?
What is a Giclee print?
What are Limited edition prints?
What are etchings?
What is a Giclee print?
Fine Art Limited edition prints for sale by UK Printmaker
All original etchings on this site are drawn, etched and hand pulled by artist Colin Bailey.
All reproduction giclee prints on this site are scanned from Colin Bailey’s own original paintings and printed by Colin Bailey.
Coastal Textures - Paintings & fine art giclee prints
RX - Paintings & giclee prints
Kings Cross Skyline 1 - Limited edition fine art etching
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HIGH STREET SNOW, HASTINGS - Limited edition giclee print
FEATURED WORK
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HASTINGS ROOFS: ORANGES.. AND LEMONS:
Pair of paintings following Hastings Old Town down the Bourne valley to the sea. The colours of each painting and the prominence of St Clements Church gave me the title! Prints available
CONTEMPORARY ABSTRACT ETCHINGS
Weapons of Mass Construction (the etching above) is the first of a new series of limited edition etchings exploring a complex range of ideas that encompass science, philosophy and possibly even politics and plays fast and loose with preconceptions of scale and perspective, order and chaos and accident and design.
Essentially abstract and yet intricately mapped, these contemporary etchings are the result of editing and distilling the best parts of larger, more spontaneous oil paintings and drawings.
Essentially abstract and yet intricately mapped, these contemporary etchings are the result of editing and distilling the best parts of larger, more spontaneous oil paintings and drawings.
Fallen Angels - Paintings & giclee
Groynes - Paintings & giclee
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 figure paintings, etchings and drawings.
Nudes - Etchings
Nudes - Drawings & giclee