Welcome
Christopher Baker has wide experience of both North American and European traditions of landscape painting. He has travelled extensively to study and paint; as far as the high Arctic & Antarctic Peninsula and his own locale as in ‘64 Days’. From this primary research has created large groups of thematic works for exhibition at The Royal Academy, London, Banff Centre For The Arts, Canada and Pallant House, Chichester.
He has a belief in a strong and intimate connection with nature and a passion that art, at its best, is one of the supreme manifestations of mankind’s ability to experience that which so both beyond and within. With this unique vision and valuable experience he is able to help artists structure and provide an individual developmental programme in the School of Landscape Painting – though the ADP.
Teaching vision
Christopher says
“I see painting as a way of making a connection to “something” much larger. It reveals the experience of being alive within the landscape, and its forces and spaces. The work of the artist is to peel away the outer descriptive surface, so as to create a vivid feeling of the experience. This can be achieved through the expressive medium of drawing and painting. It is a mix of the artist personally identifying with the landscape or motif, and a fully functional pictorial construction that will realise a personal vision.”