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Richard Baker
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My paintings. Camb Drawing Soc twice a year since 1983. Lots of gallery shows in the past but a little disinvolved now owing to age. Occasional low-price studio sales to visitors. Comments welcome; DMs not so much.
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One of many Cambridge street watercolours I did 30-40 years ago. Working on the spot uniquely preserves memories and feelings. The shop signs at that time in Green St were extravagantly beautiful and the passers by were sketched in quickly. Still have this one.
#fineart ##pleinair #Cambridge
Another on-the-spot watercolour (with pen work) from a sketching trip to Winchester in 1997. I regret parting with this one though I hope the buyer is still enjoying it. This is typical Winchester with the cathedral in the background. See Alt text for more info.
#art #watercolour #winchester
December 9, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Great idea not to mention that the entire saving was made in the year ending March 2025, two months before Reform took over.
December 9, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Has anyone else noticed how weak, repetitive and uninspiring AI cartoons are? I'm afraid that I just scroll quickly past them without reading what they are supposed to be illlustrating. Please just use words and include a relevant link.
December 9, 2025 at 10:06 AM
I updated a Flickr album of the studio and garden so I could remind myself of how nice it can look (at the moment it is bare and muddy) www.flickr.com/photos/baker...
Garden and Studio
Photos of the studio and the garden surrounding it
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December 9, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Just a reminder of August in the garden from 5 years ago on this blustery damp December day.
December 9, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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December 9, 2025 at 1:29 AM
One of a series of mixed media drawings of musicians playing at an Irish music session in Mill Road, Cambridge
#mixedmedia #musicsession #fiddle #guitar #tinwhistle
December 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Mixed media drawing of St John's Street Cambridge. This one is not large and is on a sheet of thin card primed with gesso. It has touches of oil pastel with gouache rubbed into the surface plus acrylic ink applied with a dip pen (including white ink).
#art #Cambridge #mixedmedia #AllSaintsGarden
December 8, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Watercolour of gardens in #Winchester with the cathedral in the background. This was done on one of several sketching visits in the '90s. You can soak up history in Winchester which has a wonderful atmosphere, dank and timeless, very nostalgic for me.
#watercolour #pleinair
December 8, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Life drawing portrait, model with earrings on textured tinted using indian ink and watercolour wash
#art #portrait #drawnfromlife
December 8, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Clare College Old Court, mixed media drawing (oil pastel, watercolour and acrylic FW ink)
#art #clarecollege #cambridge
December 8, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Life drawing in watercolour and Indian ink
#drawing #fineart #watercolour
December 8, 2025 at 7:53 AM
This crazy watercolour and ink sketch was done in the Mary Challis garden in Sawston near Cambridge. I was working at speed because it started to rain. I rather like the frenetic effect and it's all the better for not having been tarted up later.
#art #pleinair #watercolour
December 7, 2025 at 8:41 AM
One of many Cambridge street watercolours I did 30-40 years ago. Working on the spot uniquely preserves memories and feelings. The shop signs at that time in Green St were extravagantly beautiful and the passers by were sketched in quickly. Still have this one.
#fineart ##pleinair #Cambridge
December 7, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Trinity College chapel, pastel. I'd forgotten about this one. Spotted when looking through photos of paintings on an SD card. I think this one is oil pastel but I'll have to find the original to be sure.
#art #Cambridge #pastel
December 6, 2025 at 11:07 PM
What an idyllic place to sketch! The University of Cambridge Botanic Garden (and a very well-fed ginger cat). A short walk away for me so more painting to be done there next year I hope. bsky.app/profile/cubo...
#art #watercolour #pleinair
December 6, 2025 at 8:41 AM
I did these two drawings (and others) from a friend's window in his flat in a Portsmouth tower block in 1980. I was brought up in Portsmouth and spent a year at the art college and have a lot of paintings and drawings from there (maybe I've already posted some of them)
#art #Portsmouth #drawing
December 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Here are three of my pastels showing the Dixie's Retro Fashion stall on Cambridge market. This was for a long time a visual delight on the corner near Great St Mary's. These all found buyers.
#art #pastel #cambridge #retrofashion #fleamarket
December 5, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Me sketching in a Southsea garden early '70s.
December 4, 2025 at 9:23 AM
This is Coe Fen in Cambridge, a watercolour drawing from 1998. The tower in the middle distance is the Pitt Building and the other tower is the United Reform Church. This was done on the spot with watercolour and Indian ink.
#art #watercolour #Indianink #Cambridge
December 3, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Framing a watercolour a couple of years ago. I'm not sure if this one was in an exhibition but it's on my wall now and looking quite nice.
#art #watercolour #autumnfruitsandflowers
December 3, 2025 at 8:12 AM
A couple of pastels from my archive of artwork photos. I think these have both gone elsewhere else ages ago.
#softpastel #pastel #stilllife #flowers
December 1, 2025 at 11:46 AM
A pastel worked in my garden showing an old driftwood sculpture, a little plastic dragon on the right, some ferns and a branch of the much-painted crabapple tree. This wild patch changes every year and is always a good subject for a painting
#art #pastel #garden
November 30, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Summer 2023, watercolour sketching at Trumpington Hall. The wonderful smell of that meadow will stay with me. The painting I'm glad to say is now on a collector's wall.
#art #pleinair #watercolour #cowparsley #Trumpington
November 30, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Watercolour sketching at Toseland in 2021, with the company of a couple of horses.
#art #watercolour #cambridgeshire #horses
November 30, 2025 at 6:54 AM