Darren Baker
BA (Hons) Art & Design

Recently nominated by the Princes Trust to paint HRH The Queen, Darren Baker is the latest winner of the Yorkshire Television's Young Achiever Award.

In the last eight years Darren Baker has completed over fifty portraits for both private and public clients. His portraits of Prince Charles and Tony Blair hang in St James Palace and 10 Downing Street respectively.

Darren Baker is one of the country's leading painters within the classical realism genre.

He has received commissions from famous politicians, sports personalities and high profile celebrities, Steven Gerrard the England midfielder and Liverpool captain, Freddie Flintoff the English Cricketer, and Naseem Hamed of turbulent boxing fame. He was appointed official artist of The Professional Footballer's Association in the year 2000.

Darren has received numerous awards including best artist at The fine art trade guild ceremony in London and The Garrick Prize, Christies, London. His work has been selected by one of the world’s foremost artists Anthony Green to be seen at the ING Discerning Eye Exhibition.

He has exhibited widely, through North America, Japan, Europe and UK.