Andrew Cameron Bailey (a.k.a THE ARTIST) has been a Pop Art aficionado since the late 1960s. After spending the summer of 1969 at the seminal Pop Art Retrospective at the Tate Gallery in London, he crewed a sailboat across the Atlantic in the fall and spent time around Andy Warhol, Robert Indiana and Roy Lichtenstein in New York, taking note of their techniques and strategies. His early work in South Africa and England started as black-and-white photography, then morphed in unpredictable and surreal ways as a result of multiple exposures and experimental darkroom techniques and materials. In the 1980s, the breakthrough into color came while studying at the School of Visual Arts in New York. THE ARTIST got his hands on a one-of-a-kind $150,000 computer graphics system and his digital Pop Art career began. This was at least 4 years before the first iteration of Photoshop. Since then, he has kept up with cutting-edge developments in the creation of high-quality digital art, and uses multiple programs in his ever-evolving creative workflow.

THE ARTIST is preparing a number of collections, including Digital Watercolors, Icons of the 20th Century, Aliens And UFOs, Creatures of Legend and Queens of America. Stand by for some affordable offerings as he finalizes the images and makes them available as 8"X8" limited-edition artist's proofs for $500 each. Or you may wait and buy the same pieces for $1,000 in a gallery later this year. The museum-quality finished works will be 32" X32" and will cost about $2,000 per painting to produce, package and ship. They are being offered at an introductory price of $5,000. Each sale will trigger a 10% price increase over the entire collection, so your investment is immediately worth more than you paid for it. The value is expected to increase exponentially over time, so it's a good idea to get in early, as it was with Warhol and company.