AMERICAN

Mark Bailey

Mark Bailey is a contemporary painter drawn to the dignity of work — chefs, makers, craftsmen — rendered in confident loose brushwork. His paintings let abstract structure and observed figure exist on the same surface, asking the viewer to assemble the scene.

Works by Mark Bailey

Kitchen Colour

30 × 35 cm

Kitchen Colour catches a chef mid-shift — the figure half-built, half-dissolving in Bailey's loose painterly scaffolding of greens, peach, ivory and cool kitchen greys. The hot edge of the pass glows behind him; a tea-towel, a hand, a metal trim — all hinted at rather than spelled out. Bailey paints kitchens the way he paints bars and workshops: as places of light, heat and quiet concentration. Oil on canvas.

€1,200

Mixer

50 × 50 cm

A behind-the-bar study — a bartender in deep blue intent over a coupe glass, framed by a shimmering wall of bottles and a single bloom of marigold. Oil on canvas.

€2,500