Since 2019 I have been focusing on my Garden Works  ,as well as techniques which allow me to hang my collages outdoor. Using an Acrylic Gloss sealer for the wood backing and a acrylic spray for the front -----these pieces can hang beautifully on outdoor walls on patios. I also had a commission to produce a music conductor for my friends which is called Clive Cheltenham. This is one example of how my works will look in your garden.

 

Covid19 and my art direction.

When Covid19 reached my doorsteps, I changed my direction again .  During the pandemic I was lucky to go to my studio daily, sometimes.

As I looked around my studio and my large collection of outdoor sculptures and realized that were dull and just getting dusty. But, they were still cool . For most of my art career I did not use vibrant colors on my pieces as I was trying to keep the integrity of the found objects by using interference colors. I loved them, but they began to look dull to me , just like our world was beginning to appear  at that time. I needed to brighten up my art. They needed some energy . So I started painting some of my old work as well as other found objects in the my studio and painted them in vibrant acrylic colors. It put energy in the studio and into me ,as we slowly  climb out of this abyss. I have created numerous pieces during the past year and a half and I'm ready to show them for the first time on my Baker Website

I am calling this collection ...Garden Works.  Each piece is sprayed with an acrlic sealer, and the pieces will maintain their beauty and energy all year long.

Any of my Garden  Works can be exhibited on a custom made mild steel  20 x 20 stand. See image below...

Garden Works 2  is a continuation of my series of my newly painted works for exhibit in your garden or your home. Custom made steel stands are also available for use with the sculpture.

2017-2020

 I began  working on a series that I call ArtDoors. I began working on this series when I was given a gymnasium locker door and was asked to make something with it. That resulted in ArtDoor #1 and stopped  at ArtDoor #20 just as the  Covid19  pandemic began.

ArtDoors Continued

Musicians- in the beginning of my scrap yard hunts I came upon a box of crushed and cut up instruments. I bought a half dozen and began my compositions.

Commissions - I've only done a few through the years, as I just wanted to do my own thing.  

2007 - 2015

I began to move away from my sculpture period and began to exploring the use of copper ,copper Marquetry and other found elements in my work.

 It all started when I purchased a truck full of old patined copper downsproject and other copper roofing elements. I then aquired over 120 feet of 20in wide copper roofing material found in the rafters of our friends Yellow Barn Farm. The amazing thing that I found was that the otherside was painted a milk red and dated back to the late 1800's. These two materials , the greenish colored copper and the red painted copper , became the base foundation my new work. Last year I completed a series which I called RoofTop Views which incorporates piece of rusted corregated metal along with all the other found objects that I have around my studio. Today I am working with old copper and employing marquetry techniques constructed around a found object.

3D Metal Collages-    2007-2015

My functional art period began early in my exploration period  - making lamps, mirrors and tables using a variety of found objects that I had in my studio. A friend of mine was rebuilding an old log cabin and I became the receipient of the ends of the logs. The logs are oak and from and old Indiana log cabin. I then clean the logs, and cut them to size for cocktail tables and lamps. The copper is incorporated into each piece. For the first time I am also doing commissions for the tables and lamps.

This series of indoor sculptures include totems which were made using wood from an old cherry tree that I had taken down and milled from my old home in Takoma Park, MD. Farm pieces and other renewable artifacts are integrated into this work.