Ian's profile

Born in London, England. Educated at Ruxley Secondary School,where he took an art course from 1958-1960. Then at Epsom Art School from 1960-1964. Awarded the Surrey Certificate in Art & Design.

He has worked as a graphic designer in advertising agencies and studios in England and Denmark. He has also taught Graphics at East Ham College, and English, Art and Photography at Ruam Rudee International School Bangkok.

Other work included being a dj in pubs and a singer in a blues band.

As a freelance, he has illustrated children's educational publications and teenage romance stories. And also worked as a cartoonist for numerous magazines both in London and Bangkok ,and has been employed as an editor, journalist, photographer and designer by a wide variety of periodicals.

Ian has been exhibiting drawings and photography extensively since 1980 in one man shows and mixed exhibitions in England. Germany, Holland and Thailand. Examples of his fine art and photography have been published in art books and magazines.

From 1991-1995 Ian lived and worked in Bangkok where he worked,writing reviews, illustrating, for magazines and books teaching, and also as a newsreader and music presenter on English language radio stations.

In 2000-2002 he took time out to rediscover his painting, in London,and in Amsterdam 2002-2003.

He moved to Deal in 2005, where he continues his work.

EXHIBITIONS

2007 Paintings, mixed summer show. PYMS GALLERY, London.
2007 Paintings, mixed summer show. STARK GALLERY, Canterbury.
2006 Paintings, mixed exhibition. PYMS GALLERY, London.
2005 Paintings, mixed summer show, PYMS GALLERY, London.
2004 Paintings mixed show, 286 GALLERY, London.
2004 Photos & drawings AOEA group show, WOBURN GALLERY, London.
2004 Skylark group show. OSTERLEY PARK GALLERY, London.
2003 Mixed show. WALLS GALERIE, Amsterdam.
2003 Photographs. 147 ATELIER/GALERIE, Amsterdam.
2001 Paintings, one man show. SE.W9 Thai Restaurant, London.
1999 Photographs, group artist show, SKYLARK GALLERY.
1999 Drawings & photographs. CENTAURUS, London.
1998 Photographs, "Kensington People". KENSINGTON LIBRARY, London.
1995 Photographs, "Figures" UTOPIA GALLERY,Bangkok,Thailand.
1994 Photographs, "Boxers & Buddhas" SEVEN SEAS Restaurant,Bangkok.
1993 Photographic book "Younger Days" published by Aubrey Walter editions.
1991 Photographs, mixed show. SEVEN SEAS Resataurant, Bangkok.
1988 Drawings, mixed show. ST. JUDES GALLERY, London.
1987 Photographic book "Out of Season" published by Olive Press.
1986 Joint show w. Neil Godfrey. ST. MARY LE BOW CHURCH,London.
1986 Drawings & Photographs at Art Fair ICAF/2 London.
1985 Drawings, one man show. REVOLT GALLERY, Hamburg, Germany.
1985 Drawings, mixed show, HALDEN GALLERY, Ashford,Kent.
1985 Drawings, one man show, BODY TECH, London.
1984 Drawings, mixed show, HALDEN GALLERY, Ashford Kent.
1984 Open Drawing show. WHITE SPACE GALLERY, London.
1984 Drawings, one man show. ON THE WALL GALLERY, London.
1984 Drawings,Invited artist, Art Fair.ICAF/1 Barbican, London.
1983 Drawings, "The Male Nude" mixed show,. HOMEWORKS, London.
1982 Photographs, mixed show. HEROES GALLERY, Cardiff.
1981 Drawings, mixed touring show, BILLINGHAM GALLERY-House of Commons.
1981 Drawings, 1st one man show. EBURY GALLERY, London.
1981 Drawings, "Masked" mixed show. EBURY GALLERY, London.
1980 Drawings, group show. EBURY GALLERY, London.

PUBLICATIONS

Art & Artists - Edward Lucie Smith
Gay News - Emmanuel Cooper
Arts Review - Iain Finlayson
London Art Review - George Turner: Reviews of one man show Ebury Gallery Dec 1981
Observer Colour Magazine - Caryll Farabli
House & Garden
Arts Review: Review of 'Masked' Group Exhibition, Ebury Gallery Oct 1981
Arts Review - Guy Burn
London Art Review - Caroline Collier: Reviews of limited edition print Palm Tree at 43 Curwen Studio 1981
Illustrator 7: Interview about illustration in Gay Magazines, 1982
Hamburger Abendblatt: Review of one man show at Revolt Gallery, Hamburg, 23/10/85
Evening Argus 23/3/87
Girl About Town 4/87
Options 4/87
Gay News - Peter Burton 5/87: Reviews of Out of Season Photographic book
Him '73 - Paul Burton
Gay Times - Peter Burton: Reviews of Younger Days photographic book 1993
Kensington Weekly Times: Review of photo exhibition at Kensington Library 4/9/98

BOOKS

THE MALE NUDE: A Modern View.
An extensive catalogue of an exhibition. Foreward by Edward Lucie Smith. Rizzoli.

SEXUAL PERSPECTIVE: Homosexuality and art in the last 100 years in the West
by Emmanuel Cooper. Routledge 1986 & 1995

OUT OF SEASON: Photography by Ian David Baker.
Essay by Glen Cavaliero. Olive Press 1987. South East England coastal towns out of season.

FULLY EXPOSED: The Male Nude in Photography by Emmanuel Cooper.
Unwin Hyman 1990

YOUNGER DAYS: Photography by Ian David Baker of male youths - some nudes (over 18). Foreward by Emmanuel Cooper. Editions Aubrey Walter 1993.

HOMME: Masterpieces of Erotic Photography. Michelle Olley. Carlton 1999 & 2000.

CRITICS

"Life and Figure drawings, some of much sensitivity"
Max Wykes Joyce: Arts Review

"These series of line drawings stretch his ability and reveal a true talent"
Ian Finlayson: Arts Review

"The drawings taken directly from life have an individual handwriting which makes them memorable"
Edward Lucie Smith: Art & Artists

"There is also a romantic quality in his figure drawings which suggest there is more available for us to enjoy than just the body"
Emmanuel Cooper: Him

"Elegance and control, sensitive yet sure"
George Turner: London Arts