Lee Baker

Spectra 1 presented by Future Tense had its private view last week and all the hard work was worth it. I’m proud to be presenting my work with a fantastic group of artists including Jen Stark, who’s incredible multifaceted paper art I have admired for some time, the show was received with an overwhelming positivity. [...]

I finished my painting and sent it off to The Goss Michael Foundation in Dallas for the MTV Redefine exhibition and auction set up to raise money for Staying Alive, a charity dedicated to helping and educating people about HIV. Here are some photos of the show. I was proud to see my work in [...]

making this painting has been a cerebral rollercoaster . Basically what you see here is the painting before I went in and changed it again. I drew in black lines around all the buildings and background and I came in the next day and hated it. So, its taken about 10 days to rectify it [...]

There’s something mystical in the starkness of Charles Sheeler’s landscape paintings. They should be sad and lonely and that isnt the case at all. I feel an incredible sense of calm when looking at his work. An American artist and founder of American Modernism, his paintings make Edward Hopper’s work look positively busy. Sheeler is [...]

Its coming along. But its completely changed. At first, a Geisha was going to be in the foreground amongst flower and insects. But now I have an idea to create a series of threatening landscapes. Nature versus any kind of synthetic construct. Anyway, you’ll see what I mean as the painting progresses. Beneath the cloud [...]