Why the monsoon though? The artist is quick to remind us of the slowly fading themes of naturalism in a concretised world. “I have always painted...from my direct bodily experience of earth. I do not like to use the word landscape though, because it separates us from nature,” Baker says.
This passion defines Baker’s aesthetic that visualises moments of contact between her own senses and nature around her. She recalls a python paying her a visit during one of her painting sessions in the open. “I realised it had reached my boundary of cut grass. But after a moment of holding my gaze, it smoothly and gently returned to the tall grass,” Baker reveals. Such experiences shape her creative approach, she says.
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