Joanna Hogg

Joanna Hogg, Writer/Director of Unrelated 2006, Archipelago 2009, Exhibition 2015, 

commenting on Bakers solo show, Flying Colours Gallery London in 2011.

In some senses, what Christopher has helped me to understand in my own approach to film-making, is to articulate these things that are hidden, what goes unsaid. 

How one fragment of British coastline can encompass both sublime transcendence and gentle melancholy in two separate paintings. In his use of colour you can see how by actually, as he says in the film, limiting the use of blue in ‘Looking east from Oliver’s Battery’, “the other colours become the blues, so that they exist in relationship to the other colours and take on a blueness”. It’s this subtlety and finding different ways to express the unsayable, which I respond to so strongly in Christopher Baker’s work.

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