Tom Baker est un jeune peintre français formé dans les ateliers Beaux-Arts de Paris Glacière. Le médium de sa réflexion se précise lorsqu’il découvre la puissance de la peinture à l’huile. Ses toiles traduisent un goût certain pour la texture et le travail de la matière. La première étape de son travail consiste à construire de façon attentive et soignée des visages féminins, puis, il déforme, il lâche cette bride: il appose de la peinture ou une autre substance par dripping .. Une étape plus rapide, plus jaillissante, qui se savoure d’autant plus que la première est un travail de patience beaucoup plus lent . Il y a là une lutte, à la fois drôle et cruelle, fulgurante et minutieuse, entre la protection et la destruction...... Tom Baker is a young French painter trained in the Beaux-Arts ateliers of Paris Glacière. During his formal studies in art, he discovered the power of oil paint, which became the medium par excellence for his artistic reflection. The works of this painter reflect an unquestionable taste for texture and for working the oil paint into creation – creation of the Painting but also creation of the world. This approach is his starting point for a deeper reflection on expiration. The first stage of his work is to carefully and attentively construct the faces of women, and then distort them. He then drops the bridle of beauty - traditional and commercialized beauty – and its form, a beautiful face. The second step consists of affixing paint or other substances by dripping, pouring, blowing, and constantly working the distortion within the ‘traditional’ work of a portrait. This step is gushingly faster and savored all the more so because the first step is that of slow, controlled patience. This approach thus becomes a struggle, at once humorous and cruel, searing and meticulous, between protection and destruction