Robert Brett Bailey (Kerrison 1958-1965)

He was a landscape artist based in New South Wales, Australia and was the son of distinguished OF Wing Cdr George Peter Brett Bailey (K34-38).

His influences range from the romantic landscape painting tradition of Europe, including Turner, Samuel Palmer and the Ancients to Chinese Literati painting and Japanese individualists. He created his own way of making vivid and plausible the phenomena and experiences of the natural world. It was an attempt to capture the essential meaning of the subject with forms deriving from his own unavoidable ideas and feelings about the subject. In his work, he reinvented and appropriated many Asian techniques by including titanium mica in his pigments, creating a range of reflective lustres and the inclusion of ‘weather’ in his images.

He was born on 25 January 1947 and died on 30 June 2022 in Woonona, NSW.