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MODERN ART

When my husband suggested that I look into some affordable modern art for our interior decorating scheme, I was pretty surprised. I was even more surprised to discover that I really had no idea what Modern art prints actually were until I started browsing through the artwork online. I was pleasantly surprised by what I found.

The first thing that comes to my mind when you mention Modern art is abstract painting. I can’t help it. The colorful images are just too closely linked to the concept of the modern age in my mind. Of course, part of the problem is that I connect “modern” with present-day. However, I guess that when it comes to art, “contemporary” is the term used for today’s projects. Contemporary Art.

Anyway, I was thrilled that Modern art wasn’t comprised completely of abstract paintings and compositions that leave the lay person (like myself) scratching his head. I like to see images that are realistic and meaningful, not ones that are confusing and complex. I’m a simple gal and I want my art to be simple as well.

Fortunately, this genre is quite vast. I have found great images that were predecessors to the abstract movement but are quite easily interpreted by the eyes. There are many landscapes and portraits that are very intriguing in the realm of Modern art and I think that I am a new fan of this particular movement.

The Art Deco furnishings in some of the rooms in my home simply beckon images from the Modern art movement. I love that I can pair geometric designs in my furnishings right along with the geometric designs in the Modern art compositions that I can found. And I can still recognize what those designs actually represent.

I was also pleasantly surprised that the Modern art movement started in the late 19th century. This really appeals to the antique collector in me. While the Art Deco pieces in my home are quite old, I really love pairing interesting antiques from the 19th Century with Modern art pieces that coincide as well.

I’m glad that I took my husband’s advice. My eyes and my mind have both been opened to Modern art and I have a brand new appreciation for abstract images. I still like to keep things real, though. I’m very happy that I can still find images in Modern art that not only suit my home but suit my personal tastes as well.

  Colin Bailey

Brixworth Church - Winter Price: 50.00 All Saints Church Brixworth, digitally painted. This church (circa AD 680) is the largest surviving Anglo Saxon building in England. Brixworth Church attracts thousands of visitors every year from all over the world. Cascade Price: 50.00 White water cascades down the Afon Llugwy river, Betws-y-coed, Wales. Digitally painted. Creake Abbey Ruins Price: 50.00 Digitally painted, the ruins of Creake Abbey. For 300 years, this early 13th century Abbey functioned as an almshouse for the poor. Today its graceful ruins stand in a peacefully by the River Burn. Gravestones Price: 50.00 Moss and lichens grow on the headstones in this overgrown graveyard. Digitally painted. Jack Russell Terrier Price: 50.00 Portrait of a Jack Russell Terrier, digitally painted. Mute Swan Price: 50.00 Digital painting effect of a mute swan. Pictured in profile with water droplets on head and neck. On The Rocks Price: 50.00 Digitally painted, the Afon Llugwy river, Betws-y-coed, Wales, flows quickly between the rock and boulders which have been washed downstream over time. Parasite feeding on fractal Price: 50.00 A fractal image giving the impression of a parasitic creature feeding itself. Original fractal image given a painterly effect to soften its finish.

Brief Bio of Colin Bailey - Artist

Colin Bailey is a British artist and printmaker living and working in Hastings, East Sussex after living in Rye for ten years and Kings Cross, London for fifteen years.
As a painter and etcher with a love of traditional methods and techniques, and with a printmaker's instinct for multiple images, Colin has also accepted modern art technology and makes full use of digital photography, high resolution scanning and archival quality giclee printing to reproduce his original paintings as limited edition fine art prints. At the same time Colin continues to create the detailed tonal original etchings for which he was originally best known.

As a popular Rye artist Colin Bailey realized the wider appeal of this small picturesque area of England's south east coast and established Ryepress as an online portfolio for his Rye and St Pancras station original etchings. Now in Hastings, with a growing reputation 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 colors to ensure the integrity and accuracy of the reproduction print.