Richard J Baker ( Popxart )

Born 1970 in Nottingham UK.
Just like everyone I have always existed and always will. In the ever present infinate Omni~present oneness reality.
But...ya know...gotta keep it short an sweet :)

At an early age I was told about my artistic 'talents' and realised I was demonstrating something of my potential that not everyone was able to. Although I didn't understand how I could quite easily copy something pretty similer to how I saw it and others couldn't (And I still wonder about it)...I am sometimes told that it is simply a gift. But I put it down to will power and lots of practice, especially in previous lives, from not only me but also from my genetic and spiritual forefathers and Mothers, who have added to my own hard work something of their own.

I don't remember my education in previous lives but in this life its just been that natural ability and enthusiasm to share my talent, you know...the obvious ego tripping and scientific exploration into the nature of people, society, nature and reality in general, etc. And all that, mixed with a regular state school art curriculum and more specifically things like a documentary about New York subway art called 'Style Wars'. That film and the book 'Subway art' as well other little bits of 'graffiti' art were instrumental in getting me 'up' and out onto the street etc, with paint and camera, to share my art with the wider world aged 15(1985)onwards.
But I quit aerosol painting (almost) in 1992 after the hole in the ozone layer idea got too much for me to ignore, as mine and the worlds environmental awareness was acceleratingly increasing.
So I put myself in a position where I was forced into a lengthy meditation on some of lifes big questions. Who am I?(are we?) Where am I(are we)from? Where am I(are we)going? What am I(are we)here for? etc.
This has been my education. And it was a while before I began to exhibit my work in public again. But eventually I did. Bit by bit.,