Richard Baker
@bakerart.bsky.social
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.
February 5, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Sketching an orchestra practice in the '90s. I was later asked to send some of these to a publisher and they were used in a book, but they came back quite crumpled. There are more of them. Pleased to look back at the life that one can express drawing directly without a camera
#violins #orchestra
#violins #orchestra
February 5, 2026 at 8:26 AM
Sketching an orchestra practice in the '90s. I was later asked to send some of these to a publisher and they were used in a book, but they came back quite crumpled. There are more of them. Pleased to look back at the life that one can express drawing directly without a camera
#violins #orchestra
#violins #orchestra
Light filtering through the trees in Christ's Pieces, a park in central Cambridge, watercolour and Indian ink, with a lady in a pink dress wheeling her bicycle. This one sold at an exhibition.
#Cambridge #christspieces #watercolour
#Cambridge #christspieces #watercolour
February 4, 2026 at 9:56 PM
Light filtering through the trees in Christ's Pieces, a park in central Cambridge, watercolour and Indian ink, with a lady in a pink dress wheeling her bicycle. This one sold at an exhibition.
#Cambridge #christspieces #watercolour
#Cambridge #christspieces #watercolour
Ah, that must be why we watch it every day.
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Netflix Attacked For Having “Wokest Content In The History Of The World” By MAGA Senators At WB Deal Hearing
Unsurprisingly, Netflix was lambasted today at a Senate hearing for alleging having “the wokest content in the history of the world” and pushing “propaganda” as the partisan claws came out quickly
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February 4, 2026 at 11:36 AM
Ah, that must be why we watch it every day.
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
#watercolour #artsandcrafts #Cambridge
February 4, 2026 at 8:46 AM
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
#watercolour #artsandcrafts #Cambridge
Forget-me-nots will soon be flowering in our garden making these two resident stone rabbits happy!
February 4, 2026 at 8:19 AM
Forget-me-nots will soon be flowering in our garden making these two resident stone rabbits happy!
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.
February 3, 2026 at 4:43 PM
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.
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...
February 3, 2026 at 3:42 PM
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...
February 3, 2026 at 7:57 AM
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
#pastel #cambridge #newnham #punting
February 2, 2026 at 9:53 PM
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
#pastel #cambridge #newnham #punting
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
#oilpainting #stilllife
February 2, 2026 at 6:13 PM
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
#oilpainting #stilllife
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
February 2, 2026 at 3:28 PM
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
My garden, oil on canvas 2021, found a buyer at a Cambridge Drawing Society exhibition
#oilpainting #patioflowers
#oilpainting #patioflowers
February 2, 2026 at 2:06 PM
My garden, oil on canvas 2021, found a buyer at a Cambridge Drawing Society exhibition
#oilpainting #patioflowers
#oilpainting #patioflowers
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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
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.
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)
February 2, 2026 at 8:02 AM
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)
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
#stilllife #roses #studio
February 2, 2026 at 7:01 AM
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
#stilllife #roses #studio
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
#watercolour #Grantchester #OldVicarage
February 1, 2026 at 5:09 PM
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
#watercolour #Grantchester #OldVicarage
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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
February 1, 2026 at 10:11 AM
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
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
February 1, 2026 at 8:17 AM
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
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
February 1, 2026 at 6:48 AM
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
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
#hellebore #watercolour
January 31, 2026 at 5:49 PM
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
#hellebore #watercolour
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
#lifedrawing #ink #livemodel
January 31, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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
#lifedrawing #ink #livemodel
King's Parade, Cambridge, oil on canvas board from 10 years ago (sold)
#Cambridge #oilpainting #KingsCollege
#Cambridge #oilpainting #KingsCollege
January 31, 2026 at 8:28 AM
King's Parade, Cambridge, oil on canvas board from 10 years ago (sold)
#Cambridge #oilpainting #KingsCollege
#Cambridge #oilpainting #KingsCollege
Life drawing, male model, Indian ink and pencil, short pose.
#lifedrawing
#lifedrawing
January 31, 2026 at 8:22 AM
Life drawing, male model, Indian ink and pencil, short pose.
#lifedrawing
#lifedrawing
January 31, 2026 at 8:19 AM