Bay Lees
Bay is a local artist and teacher living in a small village near Faversham. She studied illustration at Maidstone College of Art and much of her work has retained a narrative quality, expressing a response to time and place, and allowing personal interpretation.
The body of work in the Alexander Collection is in response to visiting two very different places. The Waverley Station in Edinburgh and Kerkiecoondah, an isolated but still productive tea and coffee estate in South India. Each image is unique: a one-off piece of fine art created by layering translucent oil colour and adding texture with beeswax. Some of the wax is inked up and passed through a Kimber Printing Press and some is scraped off revealing base colour or painted on afterwards – no two results are the same. Creating each piece of art work is a voyage of discovery and it is a magical moment when each stage of the image is revealed.