Baker Artist Portfolios

Just ten miles from downtown Baltimore, the urban oasis of the Patapsco river valley is where I live, work and play. It's a treasured resource. I try to find the gems.

Ultimately, I am a creative. I love to write but I also enjoy telling stories through photography and art and any other tools available. It's what I do! And I have an exciting project that I will be working on in 2021 that will take me along the east coast and involves the heavy usage of my Minolta XG-M.

Surreal dog portrait series featuring rescue and foster dogs wearing costumes made from post-consumer paper products.

While my Music/Art videos don't use my paintings and drawings, I have used a number in my CD cover art.

These are drawn from 1973 to about 2000.

While I progressed as a composer, I found that my visual art had become obsessed with depression, becoming ever more futile.

It was around this time that I began to gradually change to photography - not so much as art, even though that did happen, but more to capture the world around me.

An assortment of left-over videos from the first three video projects listed above.

The third sample of  video statements created from 2018-2019, to help explain the twenty-nine stream-of-consciousness solo piano improvisations on my 2002 CD, "A Glassful of Doubt."

​First and foremost, I am a composer. With the advent of YouTube, it became apparent that adding visual imagery would garner more interest in my work then a static audio presentation. I’d already created a body of photography and visual art that I could draw on for this purpose. To this I added video clips, the purpose of which was to help listeners better understand the context of my vision.

The second sample of  video statements created in 2019, to accompany the thirty-three stream-of-consciousness solo piano improvisations on my 2001 CD, Keyboard Mania.

For more detail, visit "Keyboard Mania - Music/Video Imagery, part 1."

Before I began to use music as my primary means of expressing emotion, I used various sorts of painting and drawing.

I did a few oil and watercolors, but it was mainly acrylic and colored markers.

By the time 2000 had rolled around, I was reduced to just pen & ink scribblings, a sign of my mental state.