Christopher W Baker
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Christopher W Baker RBA
(born 1956) is an English
landscape painter, watercolourist, draughtsman
and author from Sussex
, England
.
, and has been the recipient of several awards and scholarships including a Royal Academy
Landscape Scholarship and an Arts Council Grant. He has exhibited extensively in the UK and Canada.
Baker has been a regular contributor to The Artist Magazine since 1987, and has contributed to art textbooks on painting technique.
He played the part of an artist and painting tutor in Joanna Hogg's film Archipelago
, shot on Tresco, Isles of Scilly in 2009. It was shown at the 2010 London Film Festival
. and is released in the UK on 4 March 2011. He is set to exhibit works that he produced during the shooting of the film in March 2011 at Flying Colours Gallery in London.
He is senior fine art tutor at West Dean College
and runs private courses through his school of landscape painting.
style, showing the influence of previous British landscape painters who eschewed solid objects and detail in favour of expressing the spiritual elements of their subjects, such as J. M. W. Turner
.
Royal Society of British Artists
The Royal Society of British Artists is a British art body established in 1823 as the Society of British Artists, as an alternative to the Royal Academy.-History:...
(born 1956) is an English
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
landscape painter, watercolourist, draughtsman
Draughtsman
A draughtsman or draftsman , is a person skilled in drawing, either:*drawing for artistic purposes, or*technical drawing for practical purposes such as architecture or engineering...
and author from Sussex
Sussex
Sussex , from the Old English Sūþsēaxe , is an historic county in South East England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex. It is bounded on the north by Surrey, east by Kent, south by the English Channel, and west by Hampshire, and is divided for local government into West...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
.
Career
He trained at West Surrey College of Art and Design and at the University of ExeterUniversity of Exeter
The University of Exeter is a public university in South West England. It belongs to the 1994 Group, an association of 19 of the United Kingdom's smaller research-intensive universities....
, and has been the recipient of several awards and scholarships including a Royal Academy
Royal Academy
The Royal Academy of Arts is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly, London. The Royal Academy of Arts has a unique position in being an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects whose purpose is to promote the creation, enjoyment and...
Landscape Scholarship and an Arts Council Grant. He has exhibited extensively in the UK and Canada.
Baker has been a regular contributor to The Artist Magazine since 1987, and has contributed to art textbooks on painting technique.
He played the part of an artist and painting tutor in Joanna Hogg's film Archipelago
Archipelago (film)
Archipelago is a 2010 British film written and directed by Joanna Hogg about a family holiday on Tresco, Isles of Scilly.-Plot:A darkly comic and quietly moving portrayal of a family in emotional crisis...
, shot on Tresco, Isles of Scilly in 2009. It was shown at the 2010 London Film Festival
London Film Festival
The BFI London Film Festival is the UK's largest public film event, screening more than 300 features, documentaries and shorts from almost 50 countries. The festival, , currently in its 54th year, is run every year in the second half of October under the umbrella of the British Film Institute...
. and is released in the UK on 4 March 2011. He is set to exhibit works that he produced during the shooting of the film in March 2011 at Flying Colours Gallery in London.
He is senior fine art tutor at West Dean College
West Dean College
West Dean College is situated in the West Dean Estate, of West Dean near Chichester. The Estate was formerly the home of the poet and patron of the arts, Edward James. He was an avid admirer of the Surrealist movement, and formed one of the largest collections of their works during his lifetime...
and runs private courses through his school of landscape painting.
Style
His early work has been described as 'photo realist' in style, while his later works of predominantly landscape subjects are in the modern impressionist or abstractAbstract art
Abstract art uses a visual language of form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. Western art had been, from the Renaissance up to the middle of the 19th century, underpinned by the logic of perspective and an...
style, showing the influence of previous British landscape painters who eschewed solid objects and detail in favour of expressing the spiritual elements of their subjects, such as J. M. W. Turner
J. M. W. Turner
Joseph Mallord William Turner RA was an English Romantic landscape painter, watercolourist and printmaker. Turner was considered a controversial figure in his day, but is now regarded as the artist who elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting...
.
Awards and Scholarships
- 2003 Expedition to Antarctica, Wolfers O’Neil Foundation
- 2002, British Arts Council Major Award
- 2000 South East Arts Award
- Canadian Arts Council
- 1988 Portsmouth Museum of Art, Travelling Exhibition
- Laing National Exhibition,Mall Galleries, Prize Winner
- 1977 Royal AcademyRoyal AcademyThe Royal Academy of Arts is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly, London. The Royal Academy of Arts has a unique position in being an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects whose purpose is to promote the creation, enjoyment and...
Landscape Scholarship - The David Murray Landscape Scholarship