OIL PAINTINGS ON CANVAS AND CANVAS BOARD
Oil paintings on canvas and linen (24” x 36”) and canvas board (30” x 20”)
Oil paintings on canvas and linen (24” x 36”) and canvas board (30” x 20”)
COLIN BAILEY
ARTIST & PRINTMAKER
Oil Paintings
Exploring the coast between Hastings and Dungeness
Exploring the coast between Hastings and Dungeness
Ryepress Etching Studio
39 High Street Hastings
39 High Street Hastings
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HORNS OF A DILEMMA
(Dec 2007)
Oil on board
20 ins x 30 ins £800
(Dec 2007)
Oil on board
20 ins x 30 ins £800
CUT THE MUSTARD
(Dec 2007)
Oil on board
20 ins x 30 ins £800
(Dec 2007)
Oil on board
20 ins x 30 ins £800
STICKS AND STONES
(Nov 2007)
Oil on canvas
24 ins x 36 ins £900
(Nov 2007)
Oil on canvas
24 ins x 36 ins £900
Tips on Art Materials
Recommended art suppliers: oil paint, acrylic, brushes, canvas, stretchers, paper and print making materials. Links to the Art suppliers I use regularly.
Recommended art suppliers: oil paint, acrylic, brushes, canvas, stretchers, paper and print making materials. Links to the Art suppliers I use regularly.
Figure Paintings
Oil paintings
on Canvas
24ins x 36 ins
£850-
Giclee Prints available:
ON THE ROCKS
TOP OF THE STAIRS
HEART OF STONE
MUSSEL BEACH
QUAY QUESTION
Paintings based on the patterns of erosion on rocks at the foot of the cliffs at
Rock-
Oil paintings
on Canvas board
20 ins x 30 ins
£800
Giclee Prints available:
As well painting many of my more traditional images on sized paper, sometimes in acrylic, oil or a combination of acrylic and oil, I often use stretched canvas or canvas board when working on larger, more experimental paintings. The resistance and texture of the canvas is often more interesting to work on and takes a wider variety of painterly marks. All of these images can be found as giclee prints elsewhere on this site:
Notes on painting technique
Despite the apparent abstraction of these paintings I have kept fairly tightly to the form and structure of the found image, gridding the canvas board like an ordinance survey map and charting each contour and line faithfully from the photographs I have taken earlier. Using these reference points the image is drawn out using charcoal, pencils and ink. Thin washes of acrylic are added to map out the areas of colour and where necessary to soften edges and add texture.
From here I start building on the acrylic foundation with thin washes of oil paint, which I often wipe away before it has completely dried leaving faint residual stains on the canvas.
As well as painting with brushes I also often make use of sponges, rags and tissues to apply increasingly thicker layers of oil paint which can rubbed away or ground into the surface of the painting. The history or archaeology of the marks and layers of the painting are important to me. Occasionally I will brush on a paint stripper such as “Nitromors” and scrape back the layers to uncover earlier lines and ghostly forms. Slowly thicker layers of paint are added, accidental marks are not only tolerated but actively nurtured and finally thin glazes of almost transparent primary colours are layered over each other.
Coastal Textures - Oil on canvas board
A new series of larger ambiguous and more “abstract” oil paintings exploring and developing my earlier coastal theme of shoreline objects breaking down through the action of the elements. In these I am "zooming in" on each object to the very blueprint of its construction and destruction, exploring the minute and inconsequential worlds that hide unnoticed within the much larger and more recognisable forms that we see as rocks, rust or splintered wood. These paintings attempt to chart the individual continents, islands, and oceans that make up a patch of faded and chipped paint, the canyons and ravines in a splintered piece of wood and the faint maps of ancient coastlines etched by erosion on the exposed face of a rock.
BATHROBE
The FALLEN ANGEL (2009) series of oil paintings
These paintings draw on an eclectic range of influences that include Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Caravaggio and even the famous pin up artist of the 1940’s an 1950’s, Alberto Vargas! The painting techniques are Bacon whilst the poses are a nostalgic nod to the glamour of the 1940’s. The individually coloured backgrounds that give each painting its sub title are stained into the raw stretched linen with acrylic and the oil paint is then applied with brushes, rags, sponges and fingers.
NEW PAINTINGS June 2009
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Delivery options for framed or original paintings:
Although at the moment I only sell unframed limited edition prints online - Please contact me if you would like to purchase a framed print or original painting, recquiring special delivery and shipping arrangements.
Unframed prints are packed flat between rigid corrugated cardboard sheets and are dispatched by Royal Mail special delivery to arrive by 1.00pm the next day. A tracking number will be emailed to you so that you can fall your delivery’s progress. Books and cards are packed securely in padded bags and are sent First Class post
Unframed prints are packed flat between rigid corrugated cardboard sheets and are dispatched by Royal Mail special delivery to arrive by 1.00pm the next day. A tracking number will be emailed to you so that you can fall your delivery’s progress. Books and cards are packed securely in padded bags and are sent First Class post
Time and Tide
the book of Rye and early Hastings pictures has just been reduced In price in time for Christmas. With now almost enough new pictures to do a second book it seemed only fair! It is now for sale for £10 (p&p £2.50) And Now for the first time is available to download in PDF format (300 DPI resolution) - aprox 88MB ) for £5! Click on the Buy Now button to pay through PAYPAL and download immediately
the book of Rye and early Hastings pictures has just been reduced In price in time for Christmas. With now almost enough new pictures to do a second book it seemed only fair! It is now for sale for £10 (p&p £2.50) And Now for the first time is available to download in PDF format (300 DPI resolution) -
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