Richard Baker
@bakerart.bsky.social
http://www.cambridgeartstudio.com/
My paintings etc. 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. My urban garden is a wildlife haven.
My paintings etc. 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. My urban garden is a wildlife haven.
Here is another flower painting/drawing from 2017, featuring our cat Millie who appeared in quite a few artworks. I'm afraid she is no longer with us (age-related illness)
#art #watercolour #indianink #dippen #botanicalart
#art #watercolour #indianink #dippen #botanicalart
November 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Here is another flower painting/drawing from 2017, featuring our cat Millie who appeared in quite a few artworks. I'm afraid she is no longer with us (age-related illness)
#art #watercolour #indianink #dippen #botanicalart
#art #watercolour #indianink #dippen #botanicalart
An oil on board from April 2017 showing flowers from the garden and a few still life objects. This painting was sold.
#art #oilpainting #stilllife #flowers #botanicart
#art #oilpainting #stilllife #flowers #botanicart
November 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
An oil on board from April 2017 showing flowers from the garden and a few still life objects. This painting was sold.
#art #oilpainting #stilllife #flowers #botanicart
#art #oilpainting #stilllife #flowers #botanicart
I produce flower paintings every year but it's dim and dismal out there with pouring rain and very little subject matter. Taking a look back at photos of some older work in progress from a decade ago
#art #painting #botanicalart
#art #painting #botanicalart
November 14, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I produce flower paintings every year but it's dim and dismal out there with pouring rain and very little subject matter. Taking a look back at photos of some older work in progress from a decade ago
#art #painting #botanicalart
#art #painting #botanicalart
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Nigel Farage said their flagship council in Kent would be a "shop window" for how they would run the country.
Just months after taking over they're now set to slash multiple council committees as they struggle to fill posts after sacking nine of their own councillors
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/12/r...
Just months after taking over they're now set to slash multiple council committees as they struggle to fill posts after sacking nine of their own councillors
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/12/r...
Reform Council in Chaos as It Prepares to Slash Scrutiny Committees Following Wave of Councillor Suspensions
EXCLUSIVE: Reform's flagship Kent administration is planning to shut down multiple council committees as it struggles to fill posts after suspending nine of its own councillors
bylinetimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Nigel Farage said their flagship council in Kent would be a "shop window" for how they would run the country.
Just months after taking over they're now set to slash multiple council committees as they struggle to fill posts after sacking nine of their own councillors
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/12/r...
Just months after taking over they're now set to slash multiple council committees as they struggle to fill posts after sacking nine of their own councillors
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/12/r...
A few pastels taken out of storage and laid out on a table when having a sort-out a while ago (and then bundled up and put away again with all the others). I have a lot of work stored away.
November 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM
A few pastels taken out of storage and laid out on a table when having a sort-out a while ago (and then bundled up and put away again with all the others). I have a lot of work stored away.
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The Tories have ruthlessly and consistently used the charter to gerrymander the BBC management to their tastes.
Labour will have to ignore the collective screeching howls of Tory non-dom media owners and get the butchers apron on.
Labour will have to ignore the collective screeching howls of Tory non-dom media owners and get the butchers apron on.
November 1, 2025 at 2:04 PM
The Tories have ruthlessly and consistently used the charter to gerrymander the BBC management to their tastes.
Labour will have to ignore the collective screeching howls of Tory non-dom media owners and get the butchers apron on.
Labour will have to ignore the collective screeching howls of Tory non-dom media owners and get the butchers apron on.
Four older oil paintings of mine (info in alt text).
October 25, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Four older oil paintings of mine (info in alt text).
These three new paintings are on display at the www.cambridgedrawingsociety.org exhibition commencing today with the preview Saturday 25th Oct, 12 noon to 3 pm. The exhibition at the Leys School, Cambridge continues until Sat 1st Nov open every day from 10am to 4pm.
October 25, 2025 at 6:57 AM
These three new paintings are on display at the www.cambridgedrawingsociety.org exhibition commencing today with the preview Saturday 25th Oct, 12 noon to 3 pm. The exhibition at the Leys School, Cambridge continues until Sat 1st Nov open every day from 10am to 4pm.
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Labour delivering on the economy, child protection and speeding up Windrush payments. It’s just in a week’s work for Labour only you don’t hear about it in the amplification of our Media for RW politics. This is what left wing politics means. Every day!
October 25, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Labour delivering on the economy, child protection and speeding up Windrush payments. It’s just in a week’s work for Labour only you don’t hear about it in the amplification of our Media for RW politics. This is what left wing politics means. Every day!
Good for him! Art is the expression of the human soul and the tech bros who think AI can steal it all and recombine it into something of value don't have souls.
The only truly ethical response that a self-described artist can make. Anything else is a betrayal of one's colleagues.
“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡
October 24, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Good for him! Art is the expression of the human soul and the tech bros who think AI can steal it all and recombine it into something of value don't have souls.
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The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.
October 21, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.
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Labour has a lot to celebrate this week.
Not all of it made the papers, but there was plenty of good news for progressives.
8 important changes:
Not all of it made the papers, but there was plenty of good news for progressives.
8 important changes:
October 17, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Labour has a lot to celebrate this week.
Not all of it made the papers, but there was plenty of good news for progressives.
8 important changes:
Not all of it made the papers, but there was plenty of good news for progressives.
8 important changes:
Cambridge May Week scene, oil on canvas board. Painted quickly a while ago but left among unfinished work waiting for me to decide what to do with it. I've decided not to do anything.
October 17, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Cambridge May Week scene, oil on canvas board. Painted quickly a while ago but left among unfinished work waiting for me to decide what to do with it. I've decided not to do anything.
A selection of past work with the theme of "ponds"
October 10, 2025 at 7:03 AM
A selection of past work with the theme of "ponds"
AI: the "engineered collapse of belief in human creativity". It's a good way of putting it. Creative people (and I like to think I'm one of them) are still using traditional media such as paint and canvas. There is no beauty in AI images or authorship because it says nothing about the human heart.
Part of this nightmare era is the complete, engineered collapse of belief in human creativity and an increasingly desperate belief that nightmarish computer routines will somehow produce new wonders
October 6, 2025 at 4:46 PM
AI: the "engineered collapse of belief in human creativity". It's a good way of putting it. Creative people (and I like to think I'm one of them) are still using traditional media such as paint and canvas. There is no beauty in AI images or authorship because it says nothing about the human heart.
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Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI
October 4, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI
October 3, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Three recent oil paintings being prepared for the autumn Cambridge Drawing Society exhibition at the Leys School.
They are not large (61 cm longest side). They are all painted in my own garden with some retouching in the studio.
#art #oilpainting #garden
They are not large (61 cm longest side). They are all painted in my own garden with some retouching in the studio.
#art #oilpainting #garden
September 29, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Three recent oil paintings being prepared for the autumn Cambridge Drawing Society exhibition at the Leys School.
They are not large (61 cm longest side). They are all painted in my own garden with some retouching in the studio.
#art #oilpainting #garden
They are not large (61 cm longest side). They are all painted in my own garden with some retouching in the studio.
#art #oilpainting #garden
Two of my older oil paintings of musicians, sold a long time ago. These are quite small.
September 29, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Two of my older oil paintings of musicians, sold a long time ago. These are quite small.
Cambridge street scene, watercolour/gouache and Indian ink.
September 26, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Cambridge street scene, watercolour/gouache and Indian ink.
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Hey Vladimir, release the Epstein files!
September 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Hey Vladimir, release the Epstein files!
Life drawing in pastel on grey paper, model with arms raised.
September 25, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Life drawing in pastel on grey paper, model with arms raised.
Pencil drawing of lamps, pot plants and copper kettle.
September 25, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Pencil drawing of lamps, pot plants and copper kettle.
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Neil Young brought it at Farm Aid. One of the greatest rock n rollers of all time.
September 21, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Neil Young brought it at Farm Aid. One of the greatest rock n rollers of all time.
Large pastel portrait of L from 1990 on a sheet of grey Ingres paper She has several of my portraits but now lives too far away for me to add to them. This one is still in a portfolio along with quite a few others.
September 21, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Large pastel portrait of L from 1990 on a sheet of grey Ingres paper She has several of my portraits but now lives too far away for me to add to them. This one is still in a portfolio along with quite a few others.