Clifford Bayliss
Brief Biography - Clifford Bayliss was born in Footscray, where he attended the local primary and technical schools, before training as an engineer with Mephan Ferguson. With a passion for drawing, he went on to the National Gallery School where he won the Travelling Scholarship for 1935. He left Australian 1936, never to return.
Bayliss arrived in London just before the outbreak of World War II. During the war he led a rescue squad in central London blitz. This had a profound effect on him. At the end of the war he worked as an excavation plant manager in the north of England, then later as an assistant to the photographer Geoffrey Gilbert.
Between 1955 and 1963 he worked as a production assistant at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, then taught technical drawing part-time at the London College of Printing; the Central School of Art and Croyden College of Art and Technology. He continued to draw and paint until a few days before he died and although he never returned to Australia, his main aim was always to send the work back here.
Alannah Coleman, Bernard Smith and John Barkes were instrumental in enabling this gallery to show the works of Clifford Bayliss.
Clifford Bayliss's Gallery
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Pencil
41 x 28.5 cm
$1,450
Aviator with Four Pyramidal Forms c1945
Ink
19.7 x 32 cm
Colour Study in Red and Green
Gouache
25.3 x 25.3 cm
Study in Green Shades with Orange and Red Shapes 1965-70
Acrylic on hardboard
61 x 61 cm
Study in Violet with Red and Gold Circles 1965-70
Oil on hardboard
61 x 61 cm
Towers, Grey Tone Study 1965-70
Oil on hardboard
91 x 61 cm
Flying Forms, Grey Tone Study 1965-70
Oil on hardboard
91 x 61 cm
Abstract in Green, Blue, Orange, Yellow and Violet 1965-70
Oil on hardboard
91 x 61 cm
Abstract in White, Orange, Yellow and Blue 1965-70
Oil on hardboard
91 x 61 cm
Tower with Arms and Chains 1970-80
Metal sculpture of soldered tin, brass plates, chains and watch parts
135 cm
$4,500
A Man and a Woman
Biro
25 x 25 cm
$900
