Skipper at Sea
Bailey captures subjects first hand, in conté, then works them up later with paint. His pieces are energetic, often brightly coloured, and depict scenes of activity or movement.
“I like to capture the way people do things,” he says. “The things that draw people together, the camaraderie – you feel drawn to it. In sports, with dancers, even with boats, there’s a synchrony.”
Born in Cheshire in 1963, British painter Julian Bailey trained first at the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford and then at the Royal Academy Schools, London. He had his first exhibition was whilst he was still at school, at Malvern Public Library. Bailey’s first solo show was in London, in 1991, and, 7 years later, he came to Browse & Darby. He lives and works in Dorset, where the landscape of the coast informs much of his painting.