Charming Baker Lets Not make life anymore difficult
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Short Description
Born in Hampshire 1964, Charming Baker spent much of his early life travelling around the world following his father, a Commando in the British Army. At the age of 12, he and his family finally settled in Ripon, North Yorkshire. Baker left school at 16 and worked various manual jobs and in 1985, having gone back to college, he was accepted onto a course at the prestigious Central Saint Martin’s, where he later returned as a lecturer. After graduating, Baker worked for many years as a commercial artist as well as developing his personal work. Solo exhibitions include the Truman Brewery London 2007, Redchurch Street Gallery London 2009, New York Studio Gallery NYC 2010, Mercer Street London 2011, Milk Studios LA 2013 and Sotheby’s S2 London 2016. Baker has also exhibited with the Fine Art Society, collaborated with Sir Paul Smith for a sculpture entitled ‘Triumph in the Face of Absurdity’ which was displayed at the Victoria and Albert Museum, continues to be committed to creating work to raise money for many charities and has recently been commissioned to be a presenter on The Art Show. His work is in many international collections. Although Baker has produced sculptural pieces in a wide and varied choice of materials as well as many large-scale and detailed drawings, he remains primarily a painter with an interest in narrative and an understanding of the tradition of painting. Known to purposefully damage his work by drilling, cutting and even shooting it, Baker intentionally puts in to question the preciousness of art and the definition of its beauty, adding to the emotive charge of the work he produces. Indeed Edward Lucie-Smith has described Baker’s paintings as having, “something more, a kind of romantic melancholy that is very British. And sometimes the melancholy turns out to have sharp claws. The pictures make you sit up and examine your conscience.”
Description
Charming Baker
Charming Baker Lets Not make life anymore difficult
Size 76 x 96 cm
Signed ed 125
Printed on very thick Quality paper with deckled edging.
Hand signed and numbered by Charming Baker.
The work of artist Charming Baker can be described as painterly and figurative, belonging to more traditional modes of art, yet also appealing to contemporary audiences. Conceptually, Baker is principally interested in contrasts—of dark and light, thick and thin, reality and unreality, beautiful and disturbing. His patterned compositions are stunning, but also emanate a melancholic uneasiness.
Charming Baker (British, b. 1964) has had solo exhibitions at the Truman Brewery London, 2007; Redchurch Street Gallery London, 2009; New York Studio Gallery NYC, 2010; Mercer Street London, 2011; Milk Studios LA, 2013; and Sotheby’s S2 London, 2016. The artist is largely inspired by the works of English still life and landscape painters George Stubbs and John Constable. Charming Baker lives and works in London.