“C. Geoffrey Baker’s landscapes of Northeastern Ohio and Northwestern Michigan expand our understanding of what Henri Cartier-Bresson called his quest for ‘the decisive moment.’ Baker’s is a decidedly American world, continuous with the ‘sublime’ in the 19th century vistas of Bierstadt and Church, the chastened humility of Thoreau and Melville, the transcendentalism of Emerson. He belongs to that American tradition of businessmen / artists exemplified by the composer Charles Ives and the poet Wallace Stevens.”​

— Charles Michener, former Senior Editor at The New Yorker and Senior Editor for Cultural Affairs at Newsweek

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ARTIST STATEMENT
With the introduction of this website, Art of the Landscape, a new chapter opens, one dedicated not only to imagery but personal observation, stories, and musings conveyed through written essays and descriptive narratives. Its creation is to further differentiate my work as a photographic artist for over 60 years and as an expository prose writer throughout my adult life. Through the juxtaposition of these disciplines, the hope is to augment, better inform, and enhance viewer and reader experience.

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My other objective for this website is to replace my former site, Baker Fine Art Photography*, with a better means  to view and purchase collectible, limited-edition prints. Most of my work was previously sold through my wife Kate’s gallery, Still Point Gallery and Boutique, a beautiful physical venue. It was through her vision, care, and management over 16 successful years that Still Point established itself as a local icon and beloved institution until her retirement in 2024. And, it was Kate’s personal aesthetic and creativity that brought seductive beauty and tranquility to a space that drew scores each day. As the primary beneficiary of her original vision for the gallery, I’ve held a number of shows at Still Point as well as solo exhibitions at other galleries, major art museums, and cultural institutions. However, with Kate’s retirement and the closure of Still Point, I am dedicating considerably more time to being in the field and relying on this new website to display and market my limited edition prints.​
 

Later this year (2026), and at the encouragement of  family and several book critics, I’ve decided to publish my work on Substack, a publishing platform where subscribers receive essays directly, without the algorithmic feeds that affect social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram. This website (www.artofthe landscape) was designed to serve as a virtual “museum” where images and short excerpts reside, with Substack providing access to the full essays as well as a forum for conversation with readers. ​​

*As a matter of note, and to avoid confusion, my old domain, Baker Fine Art Photography, has been acquired and registered to Geoffrey S. Baker (no relation) residing in Patapsco, Maryland.

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A special note of deep appreciation and recognition must go to Merry Bilgere, a print and online publishing professional who developed this website. Her creative sensibilities, patience and attention to detail have culminated in an outstanding work. 

 

​BIOGRAPHY​​
“Geoff Baker’s magnetic words and images unite to offer fresh, beguiling vistas of the familiar world. His role as the artist is to recover, to rediscover, what we understood so well as children: the strange, the beautiful, the miraculous. Baker’s language and vision, like petroglyphs, are records of the artist’s enduring struggle to give shape and meaning to the mystery of being human on our lovely, imperiled little planet.” ​

— George Bilgere, American poet, creator and radio host of Word Play and Poetry Town.

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C. Geoffrey Baker is a resident of Northeast Ohio, dividing much of his time between photographing northeastern Ohio’s landscapes as well as those of northwestern Michigan. Since 1970 he has spent several weeks each year visiting Lake Michigan’s shores, its dunes, farms, and woodlands. Over the course of these years, and a demanding business career, he has been a consistent, award-winning photographer. It was not until 2006 that he scaled back his business career and started Baker Fine Art Photography, dedicated principally to landscape photography. He is also widely recognized for his mastery in the art of digital printing, personally printing each photograph.

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Geoff's carefully crafted landscape photographs of northeastern Ohio and northwestern Michigan have been purchased and prized by collectors and institutions throughout the country. He has held numerous solo exhibitions since 2005, including the Butler Institute of American Art, Cleveland Botanical Garden, Western Reserve Land Conservancy and the Holden Arboretum where he held the distinction of “Annual Artist.” His solo exhibit at the Butler museum explored the paradoxical dimension of “stillness” in photography. He has authored three books including The Way Home, a limited edition of 100 that sold out shortly after release. His most recent, "still point … there the dance is”, is a limited edition of 150 copies featuring over 50 landscape images with accompanying essays. 

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In 2008, his wife, Kate, founded Still Point Gallery to showcase his work, eventually moving it in 2018 to Cleveland’s Cedar Fairmount Historic District where it continued to flourish until her retirement in early 2025. Pursuant to the gallery’s closing, Geoff has transitioned to an online presence through this new website and accompanying store  (www.artofthelandscape.com).  Complementing the website, he  publishes his images and essays on Substack. 

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Geoff enjoyed a forty year business career — running manufacturing businesses in the U.S. and Europe, leading turnarounds and startups as well as serving on for-profit and not-for-profit boards — all the while pursuing his art, ultimately devoting himself to it fully in 2008. In a forthcoming Substack publication, he explores the counterintuitive relationship between business and aesthetics in the context of how it informed his own art. ​

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His work has been purchased for the private collections of the Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals, Case Western Reserve University, Emory University, major law firms, national design firms, and institutional and individual collectors. ​​​​​