Suzanne Baker was born in Hampshire, UK, lived for many years in London and now lives on the Kent coast. 

Baker had a career as an art director, working mainly on glossy fashion magazines. However she found her creative freedom in her Saturday life drawing classes.  

After a weeks’ holiday painting in Chiswick House Grounds she realised that those five days held an excitement missing in her day job as Art Director at Vogue. Her daughters were growing up fast; now was the moment to change direction, do what she really wanted to do.

She took various drawing and painting classes, including painting at New York Studio School and was mentored at Turps School from 2017-2019.

Baker’s recent paintings begin as memories of her experiences and are imbued with feelings of fear, loss, heartache, happiness, joy etc., essentially all those things which make us human and connect us in relationships. This is where her inspiration lies.

Her work is in private collections. She is a member of several informal art groups studying both art texts and peer led painting discussions.

Education and Exhibitions

DESIGN AND ART EDUCATION

2018 - 2019  Turps Studio Programme

2017 - 2018  Turps Correspondence Course

1998 - 1998  New York Studio School – 7 weeks summer course

1996 - 1998 Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid  - Life drawing and painting

1979 - 1982 London College of Printing - BA Graphic Design 

1978 - 1979 London College of Printing - Foundation in Visual Communication

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008   Piers Feetham Gallery  Fulham London SW6

2004   Piers Feetham Gallery  Fulham London SW6  

2002   Chelsea Arts Club  Chelsea London SW3. 

2002   Piers Feetham Gallery  Fulham London SW6

SELECTED JOINT EXHIBITIONS

2024 The Lido Stores  Fierce Scandal  Margate Kent CT9

2023 Hansard Studio  Regeneration  London W14

2023 Linden Hall Studio  Winter Group Show  Deal Kent CT14

2023 The Lido Stores   The Wild Thought  Margate Kent CT9 

2022 Linden Hall Studio  Winter Group Show Deal Kent CT14

2022 Bermondsey Project Space   A Sense of Place  London SE1

2022  The Lido Open  Margate Kent CT9

2022  The Lido Stores  Margate Kent CT9

2022 Terrace Gallery. Seedbomb. London E10

2021 Linden Hall Studio. Winter Group Show. Deal, Kent CT14

2021 Safehouse 1. Room Share. London SE15

2021 Copeland Gallery. The Art of Painting. London SE15

2020  The Gallery @ Nice Things   Ramsgate  Kent

2020  155a Gallery  Contemporary Paintings and Prints   London SE22 

2019  155a Gallery  Winter Art Fair   London SE22

2019  The Koppel Project   Freeze-Frame, Fast Forward    London W1F   

2019  The Art Academy  Newington Gallery   London SE17 

2019  Peckham Festival at the Acme Galleria   London SE15

2019  Turps Leavers Show at Turps Gallery   London SE17 

2018  Royal Academy Summer Exhibition   London W1J 

2017  The Old Cinema    London W4 

2017  Llewellyn Alexander Gallery  London SE1

2017  Peckham Festival at the Acme Galleria  London SE15 6PW

2016  The Mall Galleries Lynn Painter-Stainers Show  London SW1

2016  The Lovely Gallery   Sydenham  London SE26

2016  The Russell Gallery   Putney London SW15

2015  Curwen Gallery   Fitzrovia London W1

2013  Cork Brick Gallery   Bungay, Suffolk

2013  Llewellyn Alexander Gallery   London SE1

2013  Curwen Gallery   Fitzrovia London W1

2006  Piers Feetham Gallery   London SW6

2004  The Affordable Art Fair   Battersea Park London

2003  Lauderdale House   London N6

2003  Piers Feetham Gallery   London SW6

2003  Bettie Morton Gallery   London SW9

2003  The Mall Galleries   London SW1

2002  Piers Feetham Gallery   London SW6

2000  Modern Artists Gallery   Whitchurch, Oxon