About The Artist
ArtIst BIO
John Clark Baker is a visual artist from Lexington, Kentucky who focuses on photorealistic portraits of humans or animals all done with colored pencils. While actively drawing throughout his life, he started to study visual art in fourth grade while attending the School for the Creative and Performing Arts, in Lexington, Kentucky, and graduated from Northern Kentucky University in 2022 with a major in Graphic Design and a minor in Entrepreneurship. In 2013, he received a Scholastic Gold Key for a painting done with oil, but started doing colored pencil pet commissions in 2019.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Coming from a family full of dog lovers, I understand the connection that people have with their pets. With my passion for creating photorealistic pieces of art, I get to perfectly capture your pet the way you see them every day. These are perfect for if it’s a new pet added to your household or you would like to memorialize a pet that you’ve lost. I love to explore all kinds of mediums with my art, but seeing how much these pet portraits mean to people is incomparable.