#Cambridge is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 170 people shared 745 posts with it — around 25 a day. Activity is up 36% versus the previous week, peaking on Aug 6 with 58 posts.

Posts with #Cambridge

Richard Baker

@bakerart.bsky.social

8 months ago

One of many Cambridge street watercolours I did 30-40 years ago. Working on the spot uniquely preserves memories and feelings. The shop signs at that time in Green St were extravagantly beautiful and the passers by were sketched in quickly. Still have this one. #fineart ##pleinair #Cambridge

On the spot watercolour drawing of Green Street, Cambridge (with Indian ink using a dip pen). I loved the extravagant shop signs but wasn't so keen on my rendering of the Halifax Building Society sign and I don't think I ever exhibited this one. However, on digging it out of a storage portfolio I decided I liked it after all. Cambridge was a nicer place then with more character. Many much loved shops have disappeared, replaced by eateries.

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Richard Baker

@bakerart.bsky.social

9 months ago

Another older watercolour drawing showing St Edward's Passage in Cambridge next to the Arts Theatre and David's Bookshop when it had a shop on that side of the church (now it only has one on the other side) #watercolour #fineart #cambridge

St Edward's Passage, Cambridge, watercolour drawing from 1991

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Richard Baker

@bakerart.bsky.social

6 months ago

One of my pastels from nearly 30 years ago showing a path across Jesus Green in Cambridge. I think this was late in the year with a few leaves hanging on to the trees with some autumn colour remaining. It was bought by a late friend and is now with his family. #Cambridge #pastel #painting

A pastel showing a figure walking along a path with trees against a misty light. This was done on a vintage sheet of maroon-coloured Ingres paper.

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Richard Baker

@bakerart.bsky.social

7 months ago

Lights coming on in Sussex Street: a favourite place in Cambridge, mixed media work (sold at a Cambridge Drawing Society exhibition). Buildings delightfully designed by architect E.R.Barrow in the 1920s and '30s. Green pantiles particularly effective. #art #mixedmedia #cambridge

A rainy Cambridge street with some autumn leaves clinging on as evening lights reflect in the puddles.

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Richard Baker

@bakerart.bsky.social

5 months ago

I have produced quite a few paintings and drawings of Green Street in Cambridge over the years. Here's a watercolour and ink sketch showing the western end as it goes into Trinity Street. Not sure if I still have this one. #Cambridge #watercolour #streetscene

Watercolour drawing of Green Street, Cambridge with the figure of a young woman in a green dress striding along and a few lightly-sketched bicycles.

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Richard Baker

@bakerart.bsky.social

7 months ago

Attending a Cambridge May Ball, pastel (sold) #cambridge #mayweek #Peterhouse

Pastel sketch of ladies in evening gowns

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Richard Baker

@bakerart.bsky.social

6 months ago

Light filtering through the trees in Christ's Pieces, a park in central Cambridge, watercolour and Indian ink, with a lady in a pink dress wheeling her bicycle. This one sold at an exhibition. #Cambridge #christspieces #watercolour

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Richard Baker

@bakerart.bsky.social

7 months ago

A small watercolour drawing of the entrance to HA!HA! on Trinity St, Cambridge (now Strada) with passing figures. This sold at an exhibition I had in King Street in 2000. Doesn't seem long ago to me. See alt text #art #watercolour #Cambridge #penandink

I love that arched entrance to a designer bar and grill on Cambridge Trinity Street. I'm glad it has been preserved or rebuilt because it became quite dilapidated years ago. Money does have its uses. Next door was Jaegar, now The Ivy Brasserie. All these flashy and expensive places would have been quite alienating to me coming to Cambridge now instead of simpler times in 1974 when pubs were scruffy and cheap.

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Richard Baker

@bakerart.bsky.social

7 months ago

This oil painting shows the Anchor pub in Cambridge on Silver Street. Dated 2016 it sold probably in a Cambridge Drawing Society exhibition #Cambridge #TheAnchor #oilpainting

The Anchor pub in oil. I worked on this one for ages, leaving it alone for periods and put it through quite a few changes

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Richard Baker

@bakerart.bsky.social

7 months ago

A street scene from the '90s (see Alt txt for more info). This detailed watercolour drawing of mine from >30 yrs ago of King's Parade, #Cambridge was completed on the spot in about 3 hours. I was sitting on a metal box that controlled the rising bollards. Sold ages ago. #watercolour #enpleinair

King's Parade, Cambridge, watercolour and Indian ink. This lovely jumble of buildings including half-timbered frontages is deservedly famous and long may it survive! The shop on the left is Hardy and Amies, Club Outfitters. The railings on the right are in front of the Senate House. I don't know who has this painting now (it was probably sold in an exhibition). Now in my late '70s I'm afraid I no longer have the stamina to sit and do work like this on the street! I'm more likely to be painting in the garden or working in the studio.

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Richard Baker

@bakerart.bsky.social

6 months ago

The 1980s saw me regularly cyclilng round Cambridge looking for views to paint, usually putting my bike on its stand and balancing my drawing board on the handlebars. This is a watercolour and gouache sketch of Christ's Pieces, a central park (see alt text). #Cambridge #watercolour

My watercolour and gouache on-the-spot painting of Christ's Pieces in Cambridge, a popular well-kept park with colourful flower beds. The sun is throwing the shadows of the trees across the grass. The central buildings have since been demolished and replaced. The spire is the redundant Victorian church All Saints' which is regularly opened for exhibitions and for people to see the beautiful Arts and Crafts wall decorations. This painting among others was bought by Rose-Marie, a lovely lady I got to know via my paintings and who sat for several portraits. which I still have. I think this was one of the ones she gave to her daughter and son-in-law who live in the US.

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Richard Baker

@bakerart.bsky.social

6 months ago

Trumpington Street, Cambridge, with the Loch Fyne restaurant, pastel (sold at a Cambridge Drawing Society exhibition. The channel that runs along the side of the road is Hobson's Conduit. I love drawing and painting chimneys. #Cambridge #pastel