Hilary J Baker

Past and present creative influences.

How societies are developing foam-like living spaces; individual controlled bubbles interlinked by multi-media connections, that grow and dissapate with changing internal and external pressures.

The surface of the printing plates used for each individual set of etchings are used to make imprints onto the surface of a piece of lead which is then manipulated to form a sculpted head or figure.  Each sculpture suggests an individual’s unconscious relationship to the space that they inhabit both internally and externally.  The surface of each [...]

This fresco reflects the effect of light in an environment.  I used encaustic materials and a hot irons to reflect a piercing of light.

As my husband is was born in the former Republic of Yugoslavia and our son Nicholas is half Yugoslavian, we feel that, as a family, we have many traces of our existance in Croatia and Serbia. I made this Bookart piece using found objects during a visit to Porec.  I used the various found objects as resists [...]

I can’t remember when my hands started dripping – nor when my feet started dripping too.  But throughout my life, I have left trails of sweaty fingerprints behind on everything I touch and footprints where I walk barefoot. This perhaps is why visible human traces form the basis of my creative work. ‘All Strung Up’ [...]

Using the ancient method of phonographic sound recording to capture a voice

Based on drawings of body prints made with photographic emulsion, these large multi-textural paintings evoke a layered impression of a human form, an archaeological residue of the presence of an individual. Using a mixture of oil paints, soot, clay and charcoal, the paintings develop over many weeks and the overall imagery evolves and dissipates with [...]

New method of ‘Phorensic Etching’