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BakerArt
@bakerart.bsky.social
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Gallery shows in the past but mostly just twice a year at https://www.cambridgedrawingsociety.org now. Amateur musician. Contact email in Flickr link above. Most chat requests are deleted - just use comments instead.
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A recent oil on canvas painted in my garden size 61cmX86cm "Two women at a garden table". It was one of my entries to the Cambridge Drawing Society 2024. Needs to be a bit more subtle in its tone I think looking back on it.
#art #oiloncanvas #summergarden
Gives me a bit of a shock looking back on this one. While I'm quite pleased with it I think it lacks subtlety and goes too much for the high colour key. A little more restraint required for this year with more carefully modulated tones and lest finicky detail.
January 3, 2026 at 8:56 AM
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Someone asked if I could post some more recent work. I have lately been browsing through older paintings but I'll see if I can choose a few more recent ones. 2021 isn't too long ago I suppose. This one sold at a Cambridge drawing soc. exhibition (info in alt txt).
#art #oil #Cambridge
Trumpington Street, Cambridge, oil on canvas, sold at a Cambridge Drawing Society exhibition. The Pitt Building (with the pinnacles) in the distance is where we hold our spring exhibitions. On the right is St Catherine's College.
January 2, 2026 at 5:37 PM
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A street scene from the '90s (see Alt txt for more info). This detailed watercolour drawing of mine from >30 yrs ago of King's Parade, #Cambridge was completed on the spot in about 3 hours. I was sitting on a metal box that controlled the rising bollards. Sold ages ago. #watercolour #enpleinair
King's Parade, Cambridge, watercolour and Indian ink. This lovely jumble of buildings including half-timbered frontages is deservedly famous and long may it survive! The shop on the left is Hardy and Amies, Club Outfitters. The railings on the right are in front of the Senate House. I don't know who has this painting now (it was probably sold in an exhibition). Now in my late '70s I'm afraid I no longer have the stamina to sit and do work like this on the street! I'm more likely to be painting in the garden or working in the studio.
January 2, 2026 at 8:43 AM
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January 2, 2026 at 7:57 AM
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Reading on the banks of the Cam. Pastel (not recent, sold a long time ago).
#art #pastel #books #Cambridge #rivercam
A fairly large pastel showing the banks of the River Cam with a couple of students reading. I have mostly used Arboreta acid-free heavy off-white sugar paper for pastels. I bought several large packs of it.
January 2, 2026 at 7:13 AM
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I posted this on Threads in a reply but that site is a dead zone for me (was it something I said?) Anyway here's a screen shot because characters are limited here:

AI can't create art...
January 2, 2026 at 6:42 AM
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Another of my watercolour drawings of Winchester from 1997 (still in my possession). I sat by some railings with my back to the cathedral and completed this on the spot even though light rain came on (I had an umbrella).
#art #Winchester #enpleinair #watercolour
Watercolour drawing of The Square, Winchester
January 1, 2026 at 9:31 AM
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Here's another watercolour from a sketching visit back to Winchester where I spent a year at the art school in the '60s. I had a particularly productive stay in the late '90s and this is favourite from then. It was bought by a friend and I'm sure she's looking after it.
#art #watercolour #Winchester
Watercolour with pen work completed on the spot in Winchester in 1997. The figures were quickly sketched in at the time. I sat there for about three hours.
December 31, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Quite a large oil on canvas showing the view across the river Cam from the Jesus Green side. I think this big tree is completely gone now. I might still have this one in the attic with other old paintings but put off sorting them out. The image is scanned from a photo.
#art #oilpainting #cambridge
An oil on canvas showing the river Cam with a large tree on the bank and old buildings behind on Chesterton Road. To the left across the river is the Magdalene College Fellows' Garden.
December 31, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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A couple of mixed flower watercolours from five years ago. I rather like them because they haven't been over-finished: just studies without any thought of exhibiting them. There's a lot of these in sketch pads and folders from over the years.
#art #watercolour #botanical
Garden flowers painted in watercolour A sketchbook study of garden flowers
December 30, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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To keep with the music theme here's a pastel showing my fiddle lying on the bed with a very sweet little cat that shared our lives for a long time before passing away quietly at home from old age. Her name was Kitty. This one was sold but I have others of her.
#art #pastel #violin #fiddle #cat
December 30, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Fiddle players in the pub, mixed media on lightly primed card
#art #pubmusic #fiddles #violins #Irishmusic #guinness
December 29, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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This is a watercolour from a sketching visit in 2021 to Burwash Manor, Barton (near Cambridge). A lovely picturesque venue with lots of independent shops to explore www.burwashmanor.com
#art #watercolour
April 2, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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I painted this watercolour in an orchard in Comberton in 1977 plus a drawing of the same bow top caravan. I now regret selling it but someone (since deceased) wanted it and I don't know who has it now. The caravan itself was later stolen (see alt text for info)
#art #pleinair #watercolour
My watercolour of an old bow top caravan owned at the time by the father of a friend. It was so nice to sit in this orchard in the spring of 1977 and I finished this on location. I wish I'd kept it. The friend told me some while after his father had died that he had donated the caravan to a museum (in Sussex?) because he was worried it might be taken by travellers but that it had subsequently been stolen from the museum(!) I framed this drawing and gave it to the friend whose father had owned the caravan
December 28, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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Thinking of voting #ReformUK Ltd.?
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Remortgage your house?
Sell your car?
Borrow on credit cards?
#Farage says the #NHS shouldn’t be funded by taxation, how will it be funded?
#VoteReform???
December 27, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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December 27, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Sketched in a riverside garden in Hemingford Abbots, Cambs, a collection of garden objects with a creative display of plants (see alt text for more description). Watercolour and Indian ink done on the spot with no later reworking.
#art #watercolour #Cambridgeshire #pleinair
Watercolour drawing of garden objects in a riverside garden in Hemingford Abbotts, a display of sempervivums, aeoniums, fuchsias and pelargoniums including a wire and straw horse alive with botanical colour. Also a wrought iron bike and a small angelic figure with flowers, and a head of Buddha.
December 27, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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I've been browsing through my Flickr store of images for more old flower paintings and here's a last one for today (daffodils, hellebore, anemone) from 1990 (or is it 1980 - can't make out the date). Sold some while ago.
#art #watercolour #botanical
Watercolour (daffodils, hellebore, anemone)
December 26, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Another more recent one (need to take a better photo of the original)
#art #botanical #watercolour
Watercolour of mixed flowers and fruit
December 26, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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One of many past watercolour compositions featuring flowers and plants from my garden. There will be new paintings when things start growing. I don't know what happened to the Chinese Lanterns (Physalis). They don't seem to come up now (must try again).
#art #watercolour #flowerpainting
December 26, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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December 25, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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It's Christmas Eve and painting in the garden in the summer sunshine seems a long way off so here's a reminder.
Happy Christmas everyone!
#art #oilpainting #garden #sunshine
A canvas is on an easel in a summer garden in Cambridge with lots of plants in containers.
December 24, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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Mixed media drawing of musicians playing at a wedding reception at Anstey Hall, Trumpington, near Cambridge UK. The bride is shown in yellow but the dress was more white than yellow. I hope she didn't mind but the picture is on their wall so probably not.
#Irishmusic #art #wedding #mixedmedia
Irish music session at a wedding at Anstey Hall, Trumpington, mixed media drawing. Composed by me from my hastily snapped photos as I was playing fiddle at the time.
December 23, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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A couple of my atmospheric views of Cambridge. The first shows Gonville and Caius and the second is a degree day at the Senate house. See Alt text for description of technique. These both found buyers.
#art #mixedmedia #Cambridge
Mixed media painting/drawing of Cambridge. For this technique I lightly prime stiff paper or card with dilute gesso Then I work over it haphazardly with watercolour/gouache, ink and just a little oil pastel. The oil pastel resists water so sometime it's necessary to rub water-based paint in with the fingers. Then it's possible to draw into it while damp with a dip pen (mostly using Daler-Rowney FW acrylic ink). See alt text on the other painting
December 22, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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This watercolour drawing is of the Cam at Duxford, at Temple Farmhouse which is a site that dates back to the Knights Templar. I gave this one to the lady of the house as the property was being sold. I stil have some others done on different visits
#art #watercolour #rivercam #knightstemplar
December 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM