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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
On the spot watercolour drawing of Green Street, Cambridge (with Indian ink using a dip pen). I loved the extravagant shop signs but wasn't so keen on my rendering of the Halifax Building Society sign and I don't think I ever exhibited this one. However, on digging it out of a storage portfolio I decided I liked it after all. Cambridge was a nicer place then with more character. Many much loved shops have disappeared, replaced by eateries.
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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
This watercolour is typical Winchester with water gurgling out of the ground and the cathedral looming up in the background. I know Winchester well from art school in the '60s and for these paintings in the '90s I stayed in Southampton and drove over to paint every day. I also painted in the divine Water Meadows on an earlier visit and one or two of those found buyers.
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Musicians playing Irish music in a Cambridge pub painted using mixed media. From left to right a fiddler, a tin whistle player, a guitarist and another whistler. A fiddle lays on the table among the depleted glasses of beer and Guinness. The gold-embellished mirror is a great feature of this pub and the dartboard is just sketched in on the left.
December 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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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
Mixed media drawing of Trinity Street, Cambridge with the railings of All Saints' Garden on the left and scattered bicycles propped around haphazardly as is usually the case.
December 8, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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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
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Life drawing portrait, model with earrings on textured tinted using indian ink and watercolour wash
#art #portrait #drawnfromlife
Life drawing portrait of model in ink and wash on tinted paper
December 8, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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Clare College Old Court, mixed media drawing (oil pastel, watercolour and acrylic FW ink)
#art #clarecollege #cambridge
December 8, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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Life drawing in watercolour and Indian ink
#drawing #fineart #watercolour
Life drawing of a female figure lightly drawn woth a dip pen with watercolour wash
December 8, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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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
Watercolour drawing worked on in light rain at the beautiful Mary Challis garden in Sawston nr Cambridge. Copy this link to find out more: https://challistrust.org.uk/challis-garden/
December 7, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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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
On the spot watercolour drawing of Green Street, Cambridge (with Indian ink using a dip pen). I loved the extravagant shop signs but wasn't so keen on my rendering of the Halifax Building Society sign and I don't think I ever exhibited this one. However, on digging it out of a storage portfolio I decided I liked it after all. Cambridge was a nicer place then with more character. Many much loved shops have disappeared, replaced by eateries.
December 7, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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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
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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
Watercolour showing the University of Cambridge botanic garden Painting at the Botanic Garden lake in Cambridge My paints and a friendly ginger cat A favourite spot: the Cambridge botanic garden lake
December 6, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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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
Pencil drawing from Sara Robinson House in Portsmouth
December 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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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
The retro fashion stall on Cambridge market. I think they are mostly doing pop-up shops now. See Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cambridge.market.retro/ The retro fashion stall on Cambridge market. I think they are mostly doing pop-up shops now. See Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cambridge.market.retro/ The retro fashion stall on Cambridge market. I think they are mostly doing pop-up shops now. See Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cambridge.market.retro/
December 5, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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Me sketching in a Southsea garden early '70s.
December 4, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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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
Watercolour drawing of Coe Fen in Cambridge, high summer with lots of wild flowers. A lovely place to sit (mind the cow pats though!)
December 3, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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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
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A couple of pastels from my archive of artwork photos. I think these have both gone elsewhere else ages ago.
#softpastel #pastel #stilllife #flowers
Pastel of flowers in a Honiton jug with a pineapple. The flowers are freesia, pinks, anenome and something else I don't remember Pastel of flowers (Iris, sweet william?) with persimmon fruit and a Buddha figurine.
December 1, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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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
A garden pastel
November 30, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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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
Trumpington Hall from the meadow, watercolour The wild meadow at Trumpington Hall. Cow parsley at Trumpington Hall meadow
November 30, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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Watercolour sketching at Toseland in 2021, with the company of a couple of horses.
#art #watercolour #cambridgeshire #horses
Pleinair watercolour sketch at Toseland, Cambridgeshire Watercolour sketch of Toseland Manor, Cambridgeshire Horses at Toseland
November 30, 2025 at 6:54 AM