About David Lewis-Baker  

Fractured Self Portrait #1 (Selective Advantage of Art Exhibition - July 2009)


"Finally I came to consider my mind's disorder as sacred". Arthur Rimbaud
"In the field of observation, chance favours the prepared mind". Louis Pasteur.
"A man paints with his brains and not with his hands". (Michangelo Buonarroti)
“I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.” (Marcel Duchamp)
“ Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a sharp knife to it. ” Banksy

I have been painting and drawing most of my life and after a period of ill health I retired as an academic from Warwick University in 2006 to become a new media fine artist and fine art photographer in Bath, a decision I consider to have been best of my life. Aside from my artistic activities and academic writing I am currently co-convenor for exhibitions at the Bath Royal Scientific and Literary Institution and also do publicity photography for Bath Abbey.

I am a very painterly digital artist and my work ranges widely from portraits and landscape pieces, to abstract, surrealist and also conceptual works. My limited edition fine art archive prints are in private collections across the globe, and my works have been used in a wide range of printed publications (books, articles, brochures, theatre programmes, posters etc) and also in an art-house movie in the US. My Giclée prints are available from my Yessy on-line Gallery (link below).

I have also written and published a number of academic books, articles and poems.

For an explanation of my digital methods of working see my short essay 'On being a "new media" digital artist.' at:
bathfineartandphotography.blogspot.com/

See the complete collection of my on-line art and photography here: www.flickr.com/photos/david_lewis_baker_arts/collections/

Purchase my works on-line here:
www.artgallery.co.uk/artist/david_lewis-baker
www.yessy.com/DavidBaker/



See my recent Exhibition: 'Patterns in Nature: The Artist's Ancient Mind' at the Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, August 11th-September-7th 2009 on line at: www.brlsi.org/exhibs/ [Scroll down to find my exhibition link]



Working Methods and Techniques

I move scanned and/or photographic digital images backwards and forwards across a variety of low cost art and photographic software, as I do not wish to be trapped into using standard Photoshop style filters and in order to develop my own unique methods of working. I employ software controls and the mouse pointer as I would paints, brushes and different textured surfaces of the traditional artist's trade. This approach also leads to a somewhat painterly style and finish to much of my work.

To list the programmes I use is off little use as the real secret lies in the unique way I use (and misuse) the software and in the way I move pieces in progress backwards and forwards between the various programmes. I also scan in my conventional paintings and drawings to create under paintings for some works. I have never read a software user's manual in my life, I simply take the tools that I find on screen and begin working with them in my own way, discovering what they were designed to do and more importantly, what they actually will do for my purposes. The first and only rule is that no tool should used simply as it was intended by the software writer.

A few selected works:

Standing Forms #4 - Zen Abstraction #13


DaDa Self Portrait - April 2009 Bath


Op Art Zebras #2 (After Vasarely)


Ocean 144 (Xscapes)


Cow #2


Classical Forms Washington - Composition #3 <a

Iraq War Windows of Suffering #10


Cover of Bath Life - May 2009



Bath Life Cover June/July 2009



See my latest works on Flickr here: www.flickr.com/photos/david_lewis_baker_arts/

Collective Flickr groups I founded and administer:












War and Memory in Art and Photography









Please Note I do not make contacts/friends with anyone who does not have a proper profile and/or evidence of a body of serious work.

David Lewis-Baker
Updated - April 2008

www.flickr.com/photos/david_lewis_baker_arts/collections/