Elected in 2024
“My work is figurative and I hope expressive. I work in whatever medium seems necessary to the story I am telling.
I paint in oil on canvas and paper, preferably on a large scale. I draw in a variety of media. Ink, pen and brush for instance is wonderfully unpredictable, sometimes telling me what will happen next.
In recent years I have become engrossed with creating environments, and installations, inhabited with small child size three dimensional figures made from painted tissue paper, delicate, vulnerable and yet surprisingly resilient. They are I suppose the more physical manifestation of my painted and drawn figures.
These small characters appeared publicly for the first time at Mission Gallery, Swansea in 2012 in an installation, Hortus Conclusus, The Enclosed Garden, in which I collaborated with my son Joseph Bayliss who produced sound and my friend the poet David Thomas.
There is on reflection, a “journey” taking place and I am sometimes the last one to know who the participants are, where they are going, or why? But they all seem strangely familiar to me.”
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