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Richard Baker
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https://www.flickr.com/people/bakerart/ UK artist. Gallery shows in the past but mostly just twice a year at the Cambridge Drawing Society now. I don't sell paintings or prints by post. Woke.
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Ah, that must be why we watch it every day.
February 4, 2026 at 11:36 AM
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My watercolour drawing of a pergola at the back of an Arts and Crafts house in Storey's Way, Cambridge. The architect of this beautiful house was M. H. Baillie Scott in 1912-13. The watercolour was completed on a sketch group visit in 2014 and I still have it.
#watercolour #artsandcrafts #Cambridge
You can read the Wikipedia article about this house at this link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/48_Storey's_Way
February 4, 2026 at 8:46 AM
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Forget-me-nots will soon be flowering in our garden making these two resident stone rabbits happy!
February 4, 2026 at 8:19 AM
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A garden painting with my old green bike, a couple of friends chatting and some of the usual clutter to be seen through the glass of the conservatory. Oil on board. I don't like the white aluminium conservatory so I hung lengths of ivy down it to break up the lines.
Plants in containers surround a conservatory and a view takes one's attention down the garden where two ladies are chatting over coffee.
February 3, 2026 at 4:43 PM
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Watercolour and Indian ink street sketch of #PembrokeCollege, Cambridge. I seem to have done a lot of paintings and drawings of this beautiful college. Many are sold. I've put a collection of them in a Flickr album here: www.flickr.com/photos/baker...
Watercolour and Indian ink drawing of Pembroke College, Cambridge. You can see it was done in situ because the people dashed in as they walk by are transparent. I always consider it a challenge when drawing this chapel to fit the weather vane in without cutting it off at the top.
February 3, 2026 at 3:42 PM
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Ink drawing of Peter, life class model
#lifedrawing #indianink #dip-pen
Life drawing of a bearded model at a life drawing session
February 3, 2026 at 7:57 AM
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Pastel of Newnham Mill pond, Cambridge, with punts and the Granta pub. Note the ducks swimming through the water lilies in the foreground.
#pastel #cambridge #newnham #punting
February 2, 2026 at 9:53 PM
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Another still life, this time featuring pelargoniums, a wooden lizard and a wooden bird with a long beak, poppy seedheads and autumn colours in the leaves outside the studio window. That old earthenware pot with twisty handles is a favourite. Oil on gessoed board, 2019.
#oilpainting #stilllife
An oil painting with pelargoniums and a wooden lizard
February 2, 2026 at 6:13 PM
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This flower still life includes my favourite African bust (bought years ago from an antiques fair). They had two and I wish I'd bought the other one. It has superb artistry and I can't do it justice. The hanging spoon in the background is really rough-hewn. I love that too. #stilllife #flowers
Still life drawing of flowers and an African carving Still life drawing of flowers and an African carving
February 2, 2026 at 3:28 PM
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My garden, oil on canvas 2021, found a buyer at a Cambridge Drawing Society exhibition
#oilpainting #patioflowers
An oil on canvas painted in my garden 2021
February 2, 2026 at 2:06 PM
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A Sunday morning In Eastney, Portsmouth. It is the view from Ferry Road to Lock Lake with a fella and his Jack Russell dog. it stretched on his lead to partake in the rarefied feast of an abandoned KFC box. He never did quite make it.
February 2, 2026 at 11:30 AM
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A happy reminiscence this dashed off #watercolour of #Grantchester. This was before our son was born and we were living a short bike ride away in Trumpington. It must be autumn and I remember finding a spot among the cowpats to sit down with my watercolours (see alt text)
I think this old watercolour of Grantchester sold but I don't remember to whom. You can see that the cars parked along the road include an orange Citroen 2CV. Also more or less central there's a blue blob beside the telegraph pole and that is the pub sign for the Blue Ball, a wonderful pub that we frequently walked to and headed unsteadily home after a few pints.
February 2, 2026 at 8:02 AM
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Still life in oil sold at a Cambridge Drawing Society exhibition in 2020. This one shows quite a bit of impasto built up during the process of composition.
#stilllife #roses #studio
A heavily worked oil painting still life on gessoed board. The ceramic owl on the windowsill and the African carved bust on the right have both appeared in various paintings and drawings.
February 2, 2026 at 7:01 AM
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Watercolour drawing done at the Old Vicarage, Grantchester in summer 2019 and sold later. Rupert Brooke lived there for a while in 1909 but wrote his most famous nostalgic poem about this place later in 1912 when in Germany.
#watercolour #Grantchester #OldVicarage
This was a lovely place to paint and I've been there a couple of times and also painted the nearby mill pond several times. The Old Vicarage garden is known for its beauty and the current owner Lord Archer has added many features. Unlike many of my sold paintings I know the person who bought this one very well.
February 1, 2026 at 5:09 PM
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I used to be one of the organisers of a degree ceremony there that required lots of visits, access to non-public areas and a climb up to the top of the Octagon so I got to know it well. A memorable experience (my photos). I was well-acquainted with Winchester Cathedral decades ago. #elycathedral
Ely Cathedral from on high. My photos from July 2008 Ely Cathedral from on high. My photos from July 2008 Ely Cathedral from on high. My photos from July 2008 Ely Cathedral from on high. My photos from July 2008
February 1, 2026 at 10:11 AM
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Here's another from this series (I think this was sold in Japan by a gallery owner who took several of my paintings back with her from her visits to Cambridge. #helebores #watercolour
Watercolour of hellebore flowers in a bowl
February 1, 2026 at 8:17 AM
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This painting of mine from 2017 shows graduation day at the #Cambridge Senate House. It's an oil on gessoed board and was shown at a Cambridge Drawing Soc exhibition. Still have it. Perhaps bsky.app/profile/cam.... would like it? It would look quite good in one of the rooms in the Old Schools
An oil on board showing a degree day at the Cambridge Senate House showing the famous cast iron railings and Constables in top hats and tail coats. It was hung rather badly at a Cambridge Drawing Soc exhibiition and didn't find a buyer so it is still in store. As I type this I haven't got a note of it's size but it is probably 24" X 32" ish and framed
February 1, 2026 at 6:48 AM
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Two watercolours of hellebore in a bowl of water from a while ago. I love hellebores but as they hang their heads if put in a vase they are difficult to paint, but putting them in a bowl worked admirably.
#hellebore #watercolour
Watercolour of hellebores in a bowl of water Watercolour of hellebores in a bowl of water
January 31, 2026 at 5:49 PM
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Quite an old life drawing portrait of Amanda. Just a few lines drawn with a dip pen and Indian ink plus some touches of watercolour on grey Ingres paper. Short poses encourage me to be concise.
#lifedrawing #ink #livemodel
I have a great many life drawings of Amanda done over quite a long period.
January 31, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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King's Parade, Cambridge, oil on canvas board from 10 years ago (sold)
#Cambridge #oilpainting #KingsCollege
An oil painting of King's Parade, Cambridge with awnings over the shops on the left and King's forecourt on the right (sold)
January 31, 2026 at 8:28 AM
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Life drawing, male model, Indian ink and pencil, short pose.
#lifedrawing
January 31, 2026 at 8:22 AM
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Parrot tulips, watercolour
#flowers #watercolour
Watercolour of parrot tulips painted direct from the subject
January 31, 2026 at 8:19 AM
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Thank you, yes this was painted from life in '88 probably in September. No photos from then but I have some of watercolours in progress Sept 2020 and there are flowers and autumn fruits in abundance. There would still be cosmos, stocks, late roses and hips etc plus little gourds at that date.
September watercolour in progress September watercolour, fruit and flowers Subjects for watercolour September watercolouring
January 30, 2026 at 6:26 AM
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One of several of my Cambridge paintings featuring Trinity Lane. I love the tunnel-like aspects of these gloomy roads which can be suddenly transformed by unexpected shafts of sunlight.
#watercolour #Cambridge #TrinityCollege #nevilesgate
January 29, 2026 at 3:29 PM
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One of my larger flower watercolours, done without body colour and featuring my most painted green glass jug (which is very old and leaking slightly from the handle. I'll get it to make a guest appearance in a new painting this year.
#watercolour #flowers #botanical
Watercolour from a few decades ago, with a mixture of garden flowers plus some decorative gourds. I don't remember who bought this one but it was quite large, probably on an imperial sheet of watercolour paper.
January 29, 2026 at 3:20 PM