Julian Bailey Exhibition Catalogue

Hold the Pose
Julian Bailey
20th February-13th March 2021

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What do you say when a lady like Val comes into your home, takes one look around at your new work and
with a big heartfelt offer says “Have a one man show with me, now!?”
“Yes, of course!” is the only answer. “Yes please, thank you!”
Affirmation is the key to almost any artist’s progress, especially when your painting is your life’s work (which it
usually is with most of the artists I know!) So that’s how the show came to be, quite magically.
The pictures are painted over the last three years, mainly in and around the studio and garden and along the
Dorset coast. The trigger for this work; the source of energy and power, which was almost electric in its
nature, was the arrival of model Chloé Sorin, to whom I am enormously grateful. Her presence, commitment
and humour, being a never ending spring of wonderful imagery.
I hope all the work speaks for itself, really. All I can say is that to try and capture something of the human spirit,
in tems of aura and radiance, is nothing but a joy to do. I hope so much that this is what comes across in each
and every one of these pictures, and that they are enjoyed for this reason above all else.
Julian Bailey
November 2020

WORKS
1 Concealed Figure etching on paper 38 x 33 cm £380
2 Mirrored Figure etching on paper 44 x 43 cm £400
3 A Boy at Ringstead gouache on paper 30 x 30 cm £380
4 A Girl in France gouache on paper 48 x 47 cm £620
5 A Time for Flowers gouache on paper 36 x 34 cm £420
6 Bottles & Cups gouache on paper 39 x 41 cm SOLD
7 A Boy with Swinging Legs gouache on paper 45 x 41 cm £580
8 Chloé with a Blue Towel gouache on paper 39 x 39 cm £580
9 Dining In Dining Out gouache on paper 31 x 32 cm £480
10 Girl in the Sun gouache on paper 40 x 43 cm £580
11 Lost Time gouache on paper 40 x 38 cm £580
12 Porthmeor Figure gouache on paper 46 x 49 cm £620
13 The Diver gouache on paper 46 x 41 cm £620
14 A Bather at Lulworth Cove oil on board 63 x 67 cm £3800
15 A Boy at Lulworth oil on board 62 x 67 cm £3800
16 A Boy on His Bed oil on board 62 x 67 cm SOLD
17 A World of my Own oil on board 72 x 77 cm £4800
18 Acting Judith oil on board 67 x 62 cm £3800

19 After You Have Gone oil on board 103 x 108 cm £7200
20 All in One oil on board 108 x 103 cm £7200
21 Almost an Angel oil on board 54 x 57 cm £2800
22 As You Find Me oil on board 54 x 48 cm SOLD
23 Chloé as Flora oil on board 67 x 62 cm £3800
24 Chloé in the Garden oil on board 57 x 54 cm SOLD
25 Chloé in the Studio oil on board 108 x 103 cm SOLD
26 Clues It’s You oil on board 57 x 54 cm £2800
27 Echoes of a Barn oil on board 62 x 67 cm £3800
28 Girl with a Smile oil on board 51 x 48 cm £2800
29 Inside Out oil on board 54 x 57 cm £2800
30 Now You See Me oil on board 77 x 72 cm £4800
31 Pyrenees Play oil on board 49 x 54 cm £3800
32 Summer Sun oil on board 41 x 43 cm £2800
33 The New Egyptians oil on board 77 x 72 cm £4800
34 The Pharoah’s Daughter oil on board 108 x 103 cm £7200
35 The Start of It oil on board 54 x 57 cm £2800
36 Under the Olives oil on board 112 x 117 cm £9200
37 Wild Flowers, Kefalonia oil on board 51 x 53 cm £3800
All measurements are for framed picture sizes.

BIOGRAPHY
1963 Born in Cheshire.
1981 Studied with Patrick Hamilton in Florence, before going to Oxford University & the Ruskin School of Art.
1986 Moved to London for postgraduate studies at the Royal Academy Schools.
1987 Met the artist Josef Herman, whose work he greatly admired.
1988-1995 Painted Notting Hill & Portobello series of works.
1999 Moved to Stinsford, near Dorchester in Dorset with his wife Sophie & the family.
2002-2004 Painted Giffords Circus & Theatre series.
2000-2012 Dorset coastal paintings.
2009 onwards Visits Falmouth, Fowey, St. Ives & the West Country estuaries.
2011 Elected member of New English Art Club.
2012 Starts to paint regularly in gouache as well as oil.
2013 -2017 Began working on garden & loggia flower series.
2013-2017 London South Bank pictures, ‘Walking by water figures.’
2017-2020 New figurative painting from the model. Radical simplification of form & colour.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1980 First one-man show, Great Malvern
1991-2000 Four one-man shows at New Grafton Gallery, London
2018 The Russell Gallery, London
1999, 2001, 2004 Browse & Darby, London
2007, 2010, 2013
2009, 2012. 2014 Sladers Yard, Dorset
2017 Browse & Darby, London
2019 The Russell Gallery, London
2019 Dukes Gallery, Dorchester

GROUP SHOWS
2001-2017 Art Chicago, Browse & Darby
2003 The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
2004 Hunting Art Prize Finalist
2007-2008 Dorset Visual Art Exhibition, The Study Centre, Poole
2009 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
2009 Royal Society of Painters in Watercolour, Bankside Gallery, London
2010 Originals 10 Printmakers Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
2011 Exhibited at the 125th Anniversary Show, Mall Galleries, London
2011 Bite Artists as Printmakers, Mall Galleries, London
2011 Royal Academy Summer Show, London
2012 Lynn Painter-Stainers finalist
2015-2017 Thomas Henry Fine Art, Nantucket, USA
2016-2019 Belgrave Gallery, St Ives
2019-2020 Browse & Darby, London
2019-2020 The Russell Gallery, London
AWARDS
1984 Edgerton Coghill Landscape Prize (Oxford University)
1986 Turner Gold Medal (RA Schools)
1988 Landseer Scholarship
2011 David Messum Prize New English Art Club
2011 Manya Igel Prize

To purchase work please contact Val Harris at art@thetablehay.com or 07956 452195
The gallery offers Collectorplan, an initiative administered by the Welsh Assembly, enabling you
to purchase work up to the value of £5,000 with an interest free loan repayable over a year.
In addition we now offer Own Art & Take it away with interest free loans up to £25,000
repayable over ten months.
The gallery is open Thursday - Saturday 10am - 4pm or by appointment during exhibitions.
All paintings are for sale upon receipt of this catalogue.