Baker Artist Portfolios

I grew up in Baltimore, but traveled extensively after attending college in Virginia, France, and Michigan, where I graduated from the University of Michigan. I majored in French, and though I loved to draw, did not consider myself an artist. I first formally studied art in 1971-72 at the Escuela de Bellas Artes in Cuernavaca, Mexico. I later returned to Baltimore, where I studied at the Mitchell School of Fine Art with Elizabeth Byrd (Polly) Mitchell in the late 1970s before a hiatus of more than twenty years while I devoted my time to teaching English as a Second Language and to family. Since 2001, I have been able to paint and study more intensively, and have taken courses at Towson University, the Zoll School, Notre Dame University of Baltimore, and the Ringling School of Art and Design’s summer program at Wildacres, N.C. I love plein air painting as well as interiors and still life. I paint frequently in my studio in the Mill Centre or outdoors around the area and on my travels. I still live in Baltimore, with my husband, and am glad to have my son nearby in graduate school.