About the Artist:-
Caroline Bailey left a teaching career in 1980 to paint in
watercolour full-time. Her first show was in Braodway in 1995
and she has had major exhibitions in leading galleries in
London and elsewhere. These include the NS Macfarlane Charitable
Trust Award at the Royal Scottish Academy (1999), the Glasgow
Arts Club Fellowship at the Royal Scottish Society of Painters
in Watercolours (1999), and the Scottish Arts Club Award at
the RSW (2001). She was elected a member of the Royal Scottish
Society of Painters in Watercolours in 1998, and has also
exhibited at the Royal Glasgow Institute, the Royal Institute
of Painters in Watercolours and the Royal Watercolour Society.
"Colour is the most obvious and fundamental
element of my work which continues to be occupied with areas
adjacent to the sea, whether the North Atlantic of The Western
isles or the rich mix of the Eastern Mediterranean. However,
my interest is gradually shifting and expanding to different
aspects of these subjects. I became fascinated in Venice with
the water’s variation in tone and colour. This has been
matched in still life paintings by my renewed interest in
textiles and has led me to explore ways of creating new textures,-
first priming then colouring- combining acrylic and watercolour
to produce layer on layer of colours and marks. Preoccupation
with foreground areas is also a new emphasis varying from
the luminous greens and turquoises of Venice's lagoon to the
dark richly textured lava fields of Lanzarote."
