The main focus of my work is landscape and portrait, with my landscapes it's my main intention to capture the atmospheric changes of the subject, it's colour and light. My portraits are focused on body language, lighting and accurate likeness of sitter. My medium are oils, watercolour, gouache and pastel.

I firstly produce small landscapes painted plien-air in oils or watercolour. These studies are then used as reference for larger works in the studio, from the sitter. The recurring themes of my oeuvre are my garden, and the remote secluded bushland and lagoons found in Warringah, in these later works I endeavour to evoke a reminder of an ancient indigenous past.

Bob Baird graduated from the National Art School and Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education in 1977 and was awarded a postgraduate degree in Education for Sydney Teacher's College 1978.

Since 1974 Baird has won many awards for Painting, Drawing and Printmaking.