Charming Baker

British(1970)

Works

Artist Spotlight

Charming Baker: Beauty Born From Brave Wounds

There is a particular electricity in the room when a Charming Baker painting enters it. Visitors to his solo exhibitions at Lazarides Gallery in London have described standing in front of his large format canvases and feeling simultaneously exposed and embraced, as though the work already knows something about them they have not yet admitted to themselves. That quality, at once disarming and deeply considered, has made Baker one of the most compelling British painters working today, an artist whose reputation has grown steadily through word of mouth among serious collectors as much as through… Continue reading

Contemporary Sculpture Bronze Conceptual American Mixed Media Figurative Charming Baker Oil On Linen Abstract Monochrome 2010

All I Want is for You Not to Speak Unless You can Improve on the Silence

All I Want Can Only Be Accomplished By Ignoring What You Need (white)

All I Want Is To Remain

Charming Baker — Nine works: i) All I Want Can Only Be Accomplished By Ignoring What You Need (black); ii) All I Want Is For Times To Change Until I Hit Some Good Ones (black); iii) All I Want Is For You Not To Speak Unless You Can Improve On The Silence (black); iv) All I Want Is Love, Attention and Permission To Fail (black); v) All I Want Is My Caravan Parked in Eden (black); vi) All I Want Is The Courage To Hide Behind My Own Sense of Self Belief (black); vii) All I Want Is To Avoid That Bridge Between Uncertainty And Outright Disappointment (black); viii) All I Want Is To Not Know Now What I Didn't Know Then (black); ix) All I Want Is To Remain Ignorant Of All The Good I'll Never Do (black)

Nine works: i) All I Want Can Only Be Accomplished By Ignoring What You Need (black); ii) All I Want Is For Times To Change Until I Hit Some Good Ones (black); iii) All I Want Is For You Not To Speak Unless You Can Improve On The Silence (black); iv) All I Want Is Love, Attention and Permission To Fail (black); v) All I Want Is My Caravan Parked in Eden (black); vi) All I Want Is The Courage To Hide Behind My Own Sense of Self Belief (black); vii) All I Want Is To Avoid That Bridge Between Uncertainty And Outright Disappointment (black); viii) All I Want Is To Not Know Now What I Didn't Know Then (black); ix) All I Want Is To Remain Ignorant Of All The Good I'll Never Do (black)

2011

Charming Baker — All I want can only be accomplished by ignoring what you need

Charming Baker — All I Want Is My Caravan Parked In Eden (white)

Charming Baker — All I Want Is The Courage To Hide Behind My Own Sense of Self

Charming Baker — One Day Our Past Will Be All There Is To Look Forward To

Request access to see more

Artists in conversation