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Kitchen Colour

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.