Tresco book

Christopher W Baker

A Portfolio of Paintings and Drawings Tresco

In the late summer of 2009 I was invited to work on the island of Tresco, Isles of ScillyCornwall ; and to take part in a film : Archipelago directed by Joanna Hogg.

These photos show some of the drawings, watercolours and oils I did during my stay on Tresco.

2010

March

oil o canvas 32 x 36 ins

oil on board 20 x 18

oil on board 10x8

oil on canvas 38 x 32

oil on canvas 36 x 34ins

oil on board 10x8 ins

oil on canvas 38 x 32ins

oil on board 10x8

oil on canvas 28x36 ins

watercolour 24x32ins

watercolour 24x32ins

watercolour 24x32ins

watercolour 24x32ins

Charcoal 24x32ins

oil on canvas 38x34

Charcoal and graphite 24x32ins

Above graphite 24x 18ins Right Graphite and charcoal

Charcoal 20x 16

Charcoal and graphite 24x32ins

Christopher Baker studied at West Surrey College of Art and Design Foundation with distinction, Gloucestershire College of Art and Design (1978) and Exeter University (Postgraduate Certificate in Art Education . Whilst still at art school he was awarded the David Murray Landscape Scholarship by the Royal Academy of Arts. Other major awards for painting have come from from the Arts Council of of Great Britain and Canada. In 1997 he worked in the Arctic following The North West Passage, with works exhibited at The Royal Academy and in Toronto ; and in 2003 he made a research expedition to Antarctica, funded by the Wolfers O'Neill Foundation and exhibited this work at Petworth House and The Royal Academy.

He has held solo shows at Pallant House Contemporary Art Gallery (1994, 1996, 1997 & 1999) and contributed to many group shows including The Royal Academy (1996, 1997,1998, 2006, 2007 ), RWA ,RWS, Bankside Gallery and New English Art Club.

Other solo shows include Oslo Museum of Art, Portsmouth Museum, Petworth House, Brighton College , Moncrieff Bray Gallery, Medici Gallery, Cork Street 2009, Gallery 286 Earls Court.

The Film: Archipelago won a major award at the London Film Festival 2010.

Review: While these paintings rely on a rigorous intellectual process they are at the same time an expression of Baker’s deep love for the landscape.Like the great Romantic painters of the nineteenth century they convey a sense of the sublime, a feeling of awe in the presence of nature. They elevate us and lift our spirits.

From the everyday Baker distills a sense of poetry, drama and a belief in a dimension beyond our normal experience.

Elspeth Bray

Christopher W Baker 110 Fitzalan Road , Arundel , BN18 9JY, West Sussex. England. www.christopherwbaker.com email : christopherwb56 @hotmail.com mobile: 07900 655 613

Toughen Up oil on canvas 32x38ins

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