Robert Bailey

Castle Fine Art is proud to present From the Adventures of Luke Starkiller, a world-exclusive collection of original art by the prestigious pencil artist, Robert Bailey. The collection, featuring exquisitely illustrated scenes from 1977’s ‘Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope’ placed alongside original script pages from the film, will be exhibited at our ICC, Birmingham gallery from the 18th January until the 22nd of February 2025.

Robert is one of the few people to have been made a Lucasfilm-endorsed Star Wars artist, creating fantastically detailed pencil drawings of the beloved characters from the series. Lucas spotted Robert’s previous work and then invited him to work on the book Star Wars: Visions, which saw 30 artists create their own interpretations of characters and scenes. George bought many of Robert’s prints for both himself and cast and crew members.

All Robert Bailey’s Star Wars pieces are stamped with a copyright to Lucasfilms, showing their authenticity and approval by the company behind the series.

Using a method called hatching, whereby the closely drawn parallel lines imply shade, tone and texture, Bailey’s drawings take many hours to complete. The distance between the hatching marks determines how light or dark that area appears. Notable adopters of hatching include Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt, Michelangelo, and Edgar Degas.

In this collection, Bailey has illustrated scenes from the script Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), creating incredibly detailed pencil drawings. As well as being hand-signed by the artist, each original drawing bears two Lucasfilm stamps. Each drawing is combined with a page of an original script used by Michael Ford (1928 – 2018), a set decorator and art director on the original production of the film.

Robert Bailey’s drawings and pages from Michael Ford’s script have been paired together, then mounted and framed in black mount and placed under museum-quality glass. The result is a collection of totally unique pieces which are prized by any Star Wars collector.

Just as you can’t keep the Jedi from returning, you can’t keep acclaimed artist Robert Bailey coming back with more incredible original drawings from the Star Wars universe!

On the 40th anniversary of the release of ‘Return of the Jedi’, the third instalment of the Star Wars series, Castle Fine Art is proud to present Revenge of the Jedi – The Lost Script; a unique collection of Robert Bailey original art alongside original script pages from the Star Wars film, ‘Revenge of the Jedi’, which we know today as ‘Return of the Jedi’. George Lucas changed the title just before release after he decided that a true Jedi should never seek revenge.

This collection is now sold out.