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Nick Baker?British
Sixth Form Enterprises PLC
1989
Signed
Framed
Pen and ink on paper
25 x 29 cm
Guide Price £75

Nick was born in Twickenham in 1940. His father
Leslie worked in advertising, drew cartoons and
was an ornithological artist. His mother
Marjorie taught drawing. After leaving Mill Hill
School he went to Ealing Art School, then to the
London School of Printing. He worked in
advertising in the 1960s, had his first cartoon
published in The Evening Standard in 1966 and
became a freelancer in 1973.
His cartoons have been published in Punch,
Private Eye, The Financial Times, The Oldie,
The Spectator, The Guardian, to name a few.
He has always kept a sketchbook approach to
drawing and drew on-the-spot at the Edinburgh
festival in 1986 and 1987, in Nicaragua in 1988
and was court artist for The Financial Times at
The Guinness Trial in 1990. The Oldie has
published travel features using Nick’s words and
on-the-spot drawings.
Since 1995, he has drawn regularly at an erotic
life drawing group, exhibited his work at the
Coventry Gallery’s Pleasures Unbound
exhibitions in 1995 and 1996, and published in
Erotic Review and Desire Magazine. He was
shortlisted for the 1996 Erotic Oscars (Leydig
Trust). He also produces monotype prints,
paintings and drawings. One-man exhibitions
held at Waterman’s Art Centre in Brentford
(1986), Mercury Theatre in Colchester (1995),
Riverside Gallery in Richmond (1997), Nehru
Centre in London (2003), and more recently at
Art Erotica in London (2012).

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