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BIO:
Irene Baker is currently living and working on Florida's space coast. She graduated with honors, earning a bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, with a specialization in painting and drawing. During her time at university she interned at the Museum of Contemporary art in Jacksonville, mainly focusing on children's art education. After returning to the space coast, she taught classes for both children and adults at the Foosaner Art Museum.
Irene Baker is currently living and working on Florida's space coast. She graduated with honors, earning a bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, with a specialization in painting and drawing. During her time at university she interned at the Museum of Contemporary art in Jacksonville, mainly focusing on children's art education. After returning to the space coast, she taught classes for both children and adults at the Foosaner Art Museum.
She combined her love of art with public speaking, and taught art classes at Painting with a Twist- Melbourne for seven years. During her time there she created many works for the studio library, and specialized in teaching pet portraits and figures.
She combined her love of art with public speaking, and taught art classes at Painting with a Twist- Melbourne for seven years. During her time there she created many works for the studio library, and specialized in teaching pet portraits and figures.
Currently she is working in her home studio, where she is growing her portfolio and doing commission work.
Currently she is working in her home studio, where she is growing her portfolio and doing commission work.
Artist's Statement
Painting and drawing have always been an outlet for me; a way of processing feelings and events and grounding myself in the present. The work is a distillation of what I'm feeling over a period of time, or the imprint of sorting out a mixture of emotions. I want the emotions to come through, for people to be able to relate or be able to reflect their own feelings off of the work. Images can hold complexity and contradictions together, perceived as one image or emblem, in a way that can be difficult with words.
Part of what interests me the most is the evolution of the work, and guiding the piece to mirror the way our feelings change over time. I notice how I am reacting to piece as I'm working, letting those reactions alter the progression of the piece in a cyclical way. I don't like to plan out what I'm doing too well, but start with an initial idea and some reference to form the basic structure of a painting or mixed media. Once that foundation is laid I work more intuitively and allow the work to evolve as I respond to it.
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