Baker Artist Portfolios

This series represents recent work in printmaking.  They are primarily Artist proofs 1/1 as they are experiments from some recent artist editions. Specifically, three of these prints are chine colle experiments and all are some form of photopolymer etching.

Painting and Relief Prints using language to build bridges for new paths and journeys.

Bleach on paper, symbols, text, words, language, meaning

The artwork is printed from woodblocks that I sketched, carved, and inked by hand, and printed on an etching press. I print with Akua Intaglio inks, which are soy-based, professional quality, and highly pigmented. My artwork features landscapes and other organic subjects, reflecting an appreciation for both the grand beauty and intimate details of nature. My inspiration is based in memories of time spent outdoors as a child and the need to reconnect with nature as an adult.

This project was created for a show in Manor Mill, an old gristmill converted to an art gallery.  I fell in love with the cellar:  dark and ancient and secret, a succession of old stone arches opening on rooms each darker than the last.  Massive gears, turned by the millwheel in a series of gears and shafts, which conveyed grain and flour up and down through the tall building for processing.  And then, beyond the final arch, the river which started it all, now underground, runs on into the dark...