ian reginald baker - weekend drive, 2019
Screenprint
Media Dimensions: 95 x 85 cm
Image Dimensions: 80 x 70 cm
Unique Work
unframed
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Ian Baker is a painter & print maker working out of electro studios, in St Leonards on Sea near Hastings.
Although he is predominantly a painter he also make prints, which are line drawn images first drawn on acetate, exposed on to silk screen then sceen printed.
The inspiration for these prints comes primarily from childhood memories of old abandoned cars or machinary found in woods that he played in.
He was always struck by the strange incongruity of these man made objects being slowly concealed by brambles & trees as if being taken back to the earth. He remembers the musty earthy smell mixed with mouldy leather & rusty metal as he pulled open one of the creaky car doors to look inside.
In this series of prints he has used this idea of incongruity and a certain fetishisation of the object to create strangely surreal narratives of myth & invented folktale, where the absense of person is echoed in the objects which they have left. The worn pedals the tuft of human hair matted in the cars carpet a discarded glove or other item of clothing.
Symbols of our earthly existance being taking back disintegrating into the earth. A metarmorphosis has and is taking place, an unsettling imprisonment of body with object, where human limbs grow into and out of object, the fetishisation of object becoming manifest.
Screenprint
Media Dimensions: 95 x 85 cm
Image Dimensions: 80 x 70 cm
Unique Work
unframed
Split your payment over 10 months with OwnArt 0% APR. Your monthly payment for this artwork could be from as little as £20.00
Ian Baker is a painter & print maker working out of electro studios, in St Leonards on Sea near Hastings.
Although he is predominantly a painter he also make prints, which are line drawn images first drawn on acetate, exposed on to silk screen then sceen printed.
The inspiration for these prints comes primarily from childhood memories of old abandoned cars or machinary found in woods that he played in.
He was always struck by the strange incongruity of these man made objects being slowly concealed by brambles & trees as if being taken back to the earth. He remembers the musty earthy smell mixed with mouldy leather & rusty metal as he pulled open one of the creaky car doors to look inside.
In this series of prints he has used this idea of incongruity and a certain fetishisation of the object to create strangely surreal narratives of myth & invented folktale, where the absense of person is echoed in the objects which they have left. The worn pedals the tuft of human hair matted in the cars carpet a discarded glove or other item of clothing.
Symbols of our earthly existance being taking back disintegrating into the earth. A metarmorphosis has and is taking place, an unsettling imprisonment of body with object, where human limbs grow into and out of object, the fetishisation of object becoming manifest.
Screenprint
Media Dimensions: 95 x 85 cm
Image Dimensions: 80 x 70 cm
Unique Work
unframed
Split your payment over 10 months with OwnArt 0% APR. Your monthly payment for this artwork could be from as little as £20.00
Ian Baker is a painter & print maker working out of electro studios, in St Leonards on Sea near Hastings.
Although he is predominantly a painter he also make prints, which are line drawn images first drawn on acetate, exposed on to silk screen then sceen printed.
The inspiration for these prints comes primarily from childhood memories of old abandoned cars or machinary found in woods that he played in.
He was always struck by the strange incongruity of these man made objects being slowly concealed by brambles & trees as if being taken back to the earth. He remembers the musty earthy smell mixed with mouldy leather & rusty metal as he pulled open one of the creaky car doors to look inside.
In this series of prints he has used this idea of incongruity and a certain fetishisation of the object to create strangely surreal narratives of myth & invented folktale, where the absense of person is echoed in the objects which they have left. The worn pedals the tuft of human hair matted in the cars carpet a discarded glove or other item of clothing.
Symbols of our earthly existance being taking back disintegrating into the earth. A metarmorphosis has and is taking place, an unsettling imprisonment of body with object, where human limbs grow into and out of object, the fetishisation of object becoming manifest.
