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Southsea beach, watercolour and Indian ink 1991 - just a sketchbook memory but has been hanging on our wall for a long time. Happy days!

Watercolour drawing of South Parade Pier, Southsea from 1991. The structures on the pier have changed a lot over the years.

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Still life watercolour, various objects with heritage tomatoes, star fish and gourds. I did a whole series of tabletop still life paintings that summer of 2020 when we were in Covid lockdown. #art #watercolour #stilllife

Watercolour still life in progress 2020, flowers from the garden plus home-grown fruit and gourds

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Fulbourn Manor, watercolour drawing on a hot day not very long ago. Sorry, I've made it look like it's falling down. I'm sure it isn't.

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Watercolour drawing of the Winter Fair in Mill Road, Cambridge showing people dancing in the street. Always a great annual event not far from where I live.

People dancing in Mill Road, Cambridge, watercolour and Indian ink with touches of oil pastel.

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Mixed media painting/drawing of *****ington street in Cambridge with Hobson's Conduit and a bowler-hatted college porter looking at some ducks (I've redacted the name of the street as it causes upset to sensitive Americans)

Mixed media large drawing of Trumpington Street in Cambridge UK

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A bit garish: not sure about this oil on canvas from a couple of years ago and now hanging in the smallest studio (I have two garden work spaces both of which are small). It went through various stages and became overworked. Probably will benefit from a few years hidden away. #violin #oilpainting

An old violin in its case with various fabrics and a pot plant.

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A very old watercolour of mine done from beside Grantchester Mill pond (I think the date says 1981). A long time ago but I remember being pleased with this one. I wish I still had it but it sold not long after being painted, #watercolour #Grantchester

A watercolour done from the bridge going across Grantchester mill pond in 1981. We lived nearby at the time so I could cycle to Grantchester and I did quite a few watercolours and some oils.

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Watercolour drawing of my garden, featuring a shed, a stepladder, a cobbler's last, a red climbing rose, a lilac tree with a bike leaning against it and a couple of collared doves. Sold at a Cambridge Drawing Society exhibition.

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is another oil on canvas from the summer of 2024, exhibited and sold at the Cambridge Drawing Society Autumn exhibition that year. It show the back of the studio with G doing a bit of pruning. That year the leafy growth was beautiful so I'm glad I captured it. #art #oilpainting #garden

Luxuriant growth at the front of the garden studio with buddleia, acer, evergreen clematis. fuchsia etc. A woman is standing on a stepladder doing some cutting back.

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This oil on canvas was exhibited at the Autumn Cambridge Drawing Society exhibition last year and found a buyer. It had been a good year for painting outdoors in my garden unlike this year (too hot!). There is a figure seated to the left, hard to see at first. #art #garden #botanical

Oil on canvas. This garden painting has a metal obelisk with morning glory climbing up plus other flowers including sunflowers and pelargoniums.

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Two women in a garden, oil on canvas from a couple of years ago. #art #oilpainting #canvas

My colourful garden with two women seated at a small table; oil on canvas from a couple of years ago.

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The Watering Can, oil on canvas, from a couple of years ago - now on my son's wall- that's his mum doing the watering. #art #oilpainting

Oil on canvas, a garden scene with a woman holding a long-spouted watering can. From a recent year when it was sunny but not blisteringly hot and it was possible to spend a long time painting in the garden.

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

From my stored images, some floral pictures spread out on the studio table when being sorted, the first being watercolours and the second, pastels.

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Ely High Street Passage, my pastel (sold). Though it is not large, Ely is classified a city because of its magnificent cathedral seen here rising above the delightful small buildings. We visit quite often as it is a short train ride away. #Ely #Fenland

Pastel showing High Street Passage in Ely with the Cathedral Octagon in the distance.

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

From a visit to Portsmouth in 1992 to see old friends and do some sketching. This watercolour drawing shows the Portsea foreshore near the harbour station with the Gosport ferry and bait diggers collecting ragworm. One of my favourite old paintings of #Portsmouth

Watercolour of the Portsea foreshore near Portsmouth dockyard. The dark area on the right is known as the Hard. Going across to Gosport on the ferry was always a fun trip, much enjoyed when I was a child.

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Another very rough old watercolour drawing, this time of anemones, on a vintage sheet of watercolour paper. Again from an old storage portfolio and probably from the 1980s

Watercolour and Indian ink drawing of anemones from the 1980s

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A watercolour from an old portfolio, aquilegia and alliums painted on a good sheet of rough watercolour paper. It is probably from the 1980s. Quite pleased looking back on it with its rough and unfussy style.

An old watercolour of aquilegia and alliums, possibly beside a pond.

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

An ink drawing from an old A3 sketch pad. This one isn't dated but another drawing says 1988 so it must be from about then. I'm pretty sure this tree is standing by the Cambridge University Botanic lake. I did a lot of sketching there over a long period. #CUbotanicgarden

Pen and ink drawing of a tree beside a lake with ducks and moorhens walking about.

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

These drawings of Cambridge musicians in rehearsal from the early '90s are scattered around various portfolios. As I find them I'm posting them in this thread.

A harpist, a cellist and a bass player, watercolour drawing 1992. I'm not sure if this was at the same rehearsals as the other drawings. Might have been somewhere else.

Just a quick sketch of a rehearsal with Alan Rochford conducting and a singer holding her manuscript.

Pencil drawing of an orchestral rehearsal

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A watercolour drawing of Newnham mill pond, Cambridge, from 2006 with a fisherman and buddlea in bloom. There's a small brick stairway going down to the water and I was sitting on that. #Cambridge #Newnham #millpond

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Indian ink drawing from an old portfolio. Not sure where or when this sketch was done (probably in the 1980s). If you recognise this cliff let me know!

Indian ink sketch of a tractor, a cliff and some people on a beach.

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Splashy watercolour sketch of the Cam looking up river towards Quayside and St John's College.

The Cam looking towards Magdalene Bridge, loosely applied watercolour with pen drawing.

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Pencil drawing of some members of a herd of sheep that live close to the river on the Cambridge Southacre nature reserve.

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View of St John's Street in Cambridge using gouache and acrylic ink on prepared paper. This one is from 2011.

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Mixed media drawing of Trinity Lane, Cambridge. The college on the left is Trinity Hall. I've painted this street often because I love the shafts of sunlight that streak across from between the gloomy old buildings (see alt text) #Cambridge #TrinityHall

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Still life in a corner at the end of the garden including apples, squash, peppers and quince, a gruesome china ornament made by by son years ago and a brass frog that often pops up in paintings. Oil on board 2017.

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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

🇩🇪🇺🇦 German Foreign Minister Wadephul: It is simply true that this is costing us a lot of money, and it is also true that we are short of money overall. Nevertheless, it is right to stand by Ukraine, because you always have to consider what would happen if we didn’t — if Ukraine lost.

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Watercolour drawing of punts at Quayside, Cambridge with Magdalene Bridge in the background, from long ago in 2000 (sold)

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

One of my plein air watercolour drawings of London. This is from 1992 and shows the Royal Courts of Justice, a street lamp with one of the lanterns broken and the statue of Samuel Johnson at the back of the St Clement Danes church. #London #Strand #Holborn #watercolour

Royal Courts of Justice, a street lamp with one of the lanterns broken and the statue of Samuel Johnson at the back of the St Clement Danes church, an on-the-spot watercolour drawing from 1992. Over quite a long period I enjoyed exploring London with my paints and watercolour pads. I don't do it now (insufficient stamina in my old age!).

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Nevile's Gate, Trinity College, Cambridge, watercolour and Indian ink (sold). #watercolour #cambridge

A watercolour drawing of Nevile's Gate in Cambridge with people dressed for a May Ball at Trinity College'

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

People forming a queue for a May Ball in front of St John's College Chapel, Ink and watercolour 2005 (sold) #Cambridge #MayWeek

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Painting at Burwash Manor, Barton near Cambridge five years ago. A lovely place to visit with lots of craft outlets, food etc. This is the old manor beside a pond, very picturesque. www.burwashmanor.com

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Mixed media painting/drawing of musicians playing at an Irish music session to celebrate a wedding (framed by me in a perfect ready-made frame from a charity shop).

Mixed media painting of musicians playing at a wedding, on the wall of the married couple.

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Sketchbook drawing from 1976, Gina sunbathing on Southsea Common, charcoal pencil with watercolour.

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Rather a grim, inky drawing of St John's Street, Cambridge from 26 years ago. Hasn't changed much. It's not really grim though: there's some happy people walking along and a couple embracing. Also just indicated on the left is the Nadia's Patisserie sign for delicious cakes and pastries

Ink and watercolour drawing of St John's Street, Cambridge.

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Pembroke College, Cambridge has been one of my favourite subjects for watercolours, sometimes with pen drawing and in this example, just worked with the watercolour brush. Some were painted on the spot but this one was composed on layout paper first. #pembrokecollege

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

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The latest #Kdrama we are watching is The Apartment Job. Not far into it yet, but it is BATSHIT CRAZY! The maddest one yet. Totally bonkers! (we love it!)

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Irises, tulips and other plants in a blue glass jug, watercolour from about 30 years ago (the photo of the original doesn't include the date). Quite pleased with this old one (sold ages ago).

Watercolour of irises, tulips and other plants in a blue glass jug with some sea shells.

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Leadenhall Market, City of London, watercolour and Indian ink on-the-spot drawing 1992 (sold)

Leadenhall Market, City of London, watercolour and Indian ink on-the-spot painting

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