Colin Bailey, Ryepress

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.

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Septicaemia

Septicaemia is a satirical song written several years ago. In light of current events I have decided to post the original lyrics in verse form. The lyrics have been adapted slightly for readability, although I have made some attempts to punctuate the verses according to the original phrasing. Having only just discovered an early recording of this I have found the sung version varies…

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Down with Subs!

Down with subs was going to be a rant about the explosive growth of subscriptions which have spread like weeds throughout every aspect of modern life, but on digging a little further I realised the shortened word for subscriptions; subs, went even deeper. One thing I love about the English language is its plethora of puns, innuendos, ambiguity and little tricks of pronunciation, punctuation and…

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STICKS AND STONES Low tide at Winchelsea beach near Rye, the weather-beaten groynes stand in silhouette against the headland at Fairlight, East Sussex. Painting oil on board 14 ins x 20 ins https://www.instagram.com/p/CNYQmFzBOms/?igshid=172ddpz3mw3uj

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Algorithms and Blues

old school exams Once upon a time inky fingered small boys and girls would gather in large unheated rooms and sit at uncomfortable wooden desks. The desks would be arranged in neat rows with military precision by stony faced teachers, not long out the army and with an almost uniform disdain for inky fingered children of any gender. The desks were battle scarred with the carvings of countless…

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St Pancras from the Regents Canal - etching 1986 Bit of a run on this recently, including the person who lived on the barge! https://ryepress.com/st-pancras-from-the-regents-canal-etching/ (at Kings Cross St Pancreas) https://www.instagram.com/p/CM38Hexhent/?igshid=106wo1cg0z84v

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Closing The Stable Door?

so... I’ve got off my arse and finally decided to revamp my website - had a few sales off it just before Christmas and realised to my embarrassment that I hadn’t updated it for a couple of years. Anyhow couldn’t be bothered relearning all that HTML stuff so I just moved it all over to Wordpress and started rebuilding it, cleaner and simpler.

Somewhere down the line I found myself testing links and looking for my paintings online, Oh yes there up there all right! On Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Tumblr, - retweeted, reblogged, shared and in some cases blatantly passed off as someone else’s “photo”. 

I’m not really annoyed, it would be nice to get a credit, possibly even a link, but at the end of the day there out there and not rotting at the bottom of a plan chest and following their tracks through the streets, alleys and dingy passageways of social media could actually be fun! 

Anyhow check out the new revamped Ryepress https://ryepress.com/ and feel free to share whatever you want, just give me a credit eh?

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SLIP DOWN MERMAID STREET, RYE Snow covering Rye's most famous street. A slippery trip down the icy, cobbled Mermaid Street, past the snow dusted sign of  the Mermaid Inn on the right, and on to  the orange glow of lights in the windows of Jeakes House.

Original acrylic painting by Colin Bailey available as a reproduction Giclee print on https://ryepress.com/rye/