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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 22h

Watercolour sketch of flag irises.

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

He's too dim to foresee that inevitability in his future prospects.

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hi Kstudiodrawn, thank you for the comment. I'm sorry but I've reached an age where I am declining commissions and sales. I'm not producing life drawings at the present time, just sorting out old work and doing a few studio and garden sketches.

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Thank you, yes, that's certainly a possibility!

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Thank you Halfshell! Give her my best wishes!

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Swan Meadow Pond in Saffron Walden, mixed media work. Saffron Walden is a beautiful town in Essex and we used to visit regularly. Not somewhere we can get to easily now I no longer drive but train rides to Ely and Norwich make up for it.

Swan Meadow Pond in Saffron Walden, mixed media work 2017. I expect this is very dry after the scorching dry summer we've been experiencing.

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hat stall in All Saints' Garden, Cambridge, pastel 2011. #pastel #hats

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Didn't do me any harm. Oh, hang on a minute, yes it did...

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

People seem to be turning away from numbskull politics.

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Large pencil drawing of plants growing down the bottom of the garden including gourds, teasels and cucumbers

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Flowers growing in a container on a garden table (mostly pelargoniums and fuchsia) - pastel.

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

They can be required to remove their experimental installations when they publish the findings.

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Remind me, how did that turn out for Charles I?

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The US President approves this dumbocracy (not a lot of people know the word "dumb" has a B in it).

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Still life from 9 years ago, oil on canvas, with a vivid background which is actually a very zany summer shirt, an African carved seated figure with a flat hat, fruits and gourds plus what I think are a couple of Armenian cucumbers #stilllife #oiloncanvas

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Blue pumpkin with a brass Buddha figure, figs and a persimmon, pastel still life on a green cloth.

Blue pumpkin and other items, pastel still life on a green cloth.

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yes it was! Loved browsing. My dad used to drive us there on a Saturday in Portsmouth and when you parked a grimy urchin would offer to mind your car (i.e. for a few pennies he'd abstain from vandalising it!)

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Amazon is disgusting and I haven't bought from them for two years. There's always somewhere else.

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I remember when you bought a light bulb they tested it using a socket on the counter💡

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've always wandered around with a camera and I'm particularly pleased with my ones of Portsmouth in the 1960s. I took these two in Woolworths from the balcony, probably using the Russian 35mm camera I had then (a Cosmic 35). Fascinating details from so long ago. #Portsmouth #PortsmouthUK

My photo from the balcony in Woolworths, Portsmouth (1960s)

My photo from the balcony in Woolworths, Portsmouth UK (1960s)

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The one on the right (I won't say his name) will feature in a doorstep-sized tell-all biography detailing all the crimes. I bet someone is researching and writing it now: a Pulitzer Prize surely awaits!

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

When I was at the art college it was a separate institution. The building has since been demolished and replaced and I think it is now part of Portsmouth Uni.

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Quick portrait of a model at a life drawing session, watercolour drawn directly with the brush #watercolour #watercolor #portrait

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I updated the "about me" page on Flickr as my website is now so antiquated. If you are interested here's the link. Flickr has always been a very useful place to store photos of paintings and the link should open without having to sign up. www.flickr.com/people/baker...

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Richard Baker - Artist based in Cambridge UK After a childhood where painting and drawing were my obsession I attended Portsmouth and Winchester art schools 1965-67. Portsmouth (my home town) was gr...

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Young women out on the town, watercolour and Indian ink

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It looks like that one was drawn directly with the pen. I often do a rough positioning sketch in pencil though and then ignore it!

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

L drawing in the King's art studio surrounded by bags (from about 1991)

Young woman with long black hair concentrating on her drawing surrounded by bags.

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

An ink drawing of a Balley Rambert rehearsal from my year at Portsmouth Art College in the '60s.

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pastel portrait of an old friend sitting on our sofa from quite a long time ago. #pastel #portrait #lifedrawn

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We don't eat any of that poison. I do spend longer in the supermarket now though, reading lists of ingredients with my strong specs on.

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hi Halfshell, often but not always a bodhrán player.

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Another version of the four musicians at a pub table (in this one the woman on the right is singing). This is gouache, oil pastel and Daler/Rowney acrylic ink. I've kept all these mixed media works and hope to produce some more. There was one of a guitarist with his dog that wasn't finished.

Another version of the four musicians at a Cambridge pub table

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Musicians playing at an Irish music session in a Cambridge pub, gouache, oil pastel and Daler/Rowney acrylic ink. #Irishmusic #jigsandreels #mixedmedia

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Musicians in the Beaconsfield pub, Cambridge, gouache, oil pastel and Daler/Rowney acrylic ink. #Irishmusic #fiddles #jigsandreels#guinness

Three fiddle players in a Cambridge pub, mixed media

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

That's more like Shania law (but she's a Canadian)

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'm reminded of an old Russian joke: a guy goes every day into a newsagents and seizes a paper and looks at the front and then puts it back. "Why do you do this" asks the shopkeeper? "I'm looking for an obituary". "Obituaries are at the back". "The one I'm looking for won't be!"

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Got to tread carefully these days Pam!

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Some while ago I posted a pastel painting of *****ington Hall and it upset many people so I am wary of that!

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