Colin Bailey is an artist and printmaker living and working in Hastings, East Sussex 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 a popular Rye artist he realised the wider appeal of this small picturesque area of the south east coast and set up his website as a showcase for his Rye and Kings Cross etchings. Now in Hastings, he has expanded his portfolio with a new series of paintings: Different from the traditional views of Rye & Hastings for which he am best known, the new paintings explore the textures and structures of the coast. 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.