We are sharing each of the artists participating in our current exhibition H2O through our blog series, Artists Sharing Artists, so you can learn a little more about them and their artwork. If you’d like to come see the show in person, please check out our pop-up event schedule and/or book a private tour with us! If you’d like to purchase work, please contact us!
About the Artist:
Paolo was born in 1953 in Ravenna, Italy. Ravenna was the capital of the Western Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire and was a historical city of art and cultures, so since childhood he has been attracted to colors and art. After high school he studied art, theatre and set design. This love of art continually grows and evolves throughout life experiences, travels and intense strength to be able to peel back this veil of omerta or the wall of silence that shrouds the world. Paolo currently paints and sculpts in his studio in the desert just north of Todos Santos.
About the Art:
The concept of the work, is that where there is water there is always LIFE, because it nourishes everything, heals pain and aridity, and with the help of time, everything flourishes again. Through pain, we achieve access to new feelings that allow love to generate new life.
IG: @paolomelandri53
HASTA LA ETERNIDAD | Oil on Board | 82,400 MXN
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Currently, the studio is only open for scheduled events and by appointment.
GLASSY SEAS: Etched Designs on Recycled Bottles with Jenni Ward
Friday April 17th | 10am – 1pm | Earth Art Studio
B CR8IV and learn a new crafty skill while enjoying the quiet of the Las Playitas desert. Students will learn how to mask and acid etch a design inspired by the sea onto recycled glass bottles. Jenni will guide you through our project to help you create a unique, personalized piece while exploring a variety of techniques, tools + materials. Includes all materials, snacks/drinks and a personalized tour of our our current exhibition H20.
B CR8IV and learn a new crafty skill while enjoying the quiet of the Las Playitas desert. Students will learn basic basket weaving skills to create a basket primarily from upcycled materials like plastic bags. Anapaula will guide you through our project to help you create a unique, personalized piece while exploring a variety of techniques, tools + materials.
Includes all materials, snacks/drinks and a personalized tour of our our current exhibition H20.
No experience needed, but space is limited. Payments may be made in person in pesos, please contact us to hold your space.
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We are sharing each of the artists participating in our current exhibition H2O through our blog series, Artists Sharing Artists, so you can learn a little more about them and their artwork. If you’d like to come see the show in person, please check out our pop-up event schedule and/or book a private tour with us! If you’d like to purchase work, please contact us!
About the Artist:
Susan McBride of Mind Clay Body Studio unearthed her passion for clay after receiving the M.S. in Education/Social Policy from Northwestern University. A Chicago based educator, ceramic artist, and painter, McBride has taught in the US, China, Kenya, and Mexico. Wood firing and studio affiliations include Made Chicago, Barro Sur, Taller de Terreno, and Theaster Gates Studio. She also is certified in Clay Field Therapy, a haptic based, sensorimotor intervention that can help heal trauma or developmental delays. McBride crafts pots inspired by the intersection of natural and urban environments and finds purpose and peace through ceramic work. She makes functional and sculptural ceramics for contemplation, relaxation and the practice of life. Sourced from our earth, clay is rock weathered over time. Intrigued by the scientific and haptic nature of the material, for McBride it links humans to our planet and to each other. She explores a variety of clay bodies and glazes in different firing atmospheres and fuel sources, including gas, wood, electric, to learn the chemistry occurring in each kiln that best enhances the work placed inside it. Every clay pot has its own story and can serve as a reminder of our individualism and humanity. As an artist-activist, she organized and led Nasty Women Art Chicago, co-created “Pots to the People: Seconds for the First Amendment” and was an invited artist for “Still Counting,” an exhibit honoring women’s rights at SOFA Chicago. Representing Firebird Community Arts, she taught a hand building series for Red Line Service members, an arts-based support group for the unhoused, in Hull House Museum’s “Radical Craft” exhibition. Cast in a print media campaign for The Field Museum, her portrayal as ‘Viking woman’ was featured on billboards and buses throughout the city.
Nero , Wasser, Agua, Shui, Eau + Mool | Local + red sculpture ceramic clays with white slip 3,500 – 3,200 MXN each, please inquire for specific pieces
Olla Oasis Installation images 1 – 5 | Water Pitcher, glazed local clay, 3000MXN image 6
About the Art:
The ollas I created for this show are wheel thrown local clay mixed with a red sculpture body and are examples of an ancient irrigation system used world wide where low fire pots are buried from the neck down and filled with water. Soil moisture tension pulls the water through the unglazed, porous walls of the olla to the thirsty roots of plants nearby. These vessels exemplify the reverent connection between the earth, the hands of a maker, and the joint effort between both to produce our flora, fauna and food, all while utilizing our greatest resource, water.
Earth Art Studio believes in supporting working artists! Purchasing art work and/or contributing a donation for your visit to the sculpture trail helps keep our creative community thriving and making more art!
Currently, the studio is only open for scheduled events and by appointment.
So grateful to all who showed up to help clean our local beach Playa Tia Micaela, last Sunday morning – you guys are the best!
In less than 2 hours, 10 incredible humans collected 82 kilos of trash out of the dunes and 15 kilos of it was recyclable – AMAZING!
This was one small part of a statewide cleanup day, to see results from around the state of Baja Sur, check out the instagram feeds of @cleanup_bcs and our local org Cero Basura @cerobasura_bcs
About Art Baja LOCAL: Cultural circuit with activities in participating spaces: galleries, museums, hotels, restaurants and more. 📍 Todos Santos 26–29 March 2026 📍 La Paz 02–05 April 2026
We are sharing each of the artists participating in our current exhibition H2O through our blog series, Artists Sharing Artists, so you can learn a little more about them and their artwork. If you’d like to come see the show in person, please check out our pop-up event schedule and/or book a private tour with us! If you’d like to purchase work, please contact us!
About the Artist:
Kerch is a contemporary landscape artist whose practice operates at the intersection of phenomenological observation and lyrical abstraction. Born in Mexico, he holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Miami and a Master’s degree from the Pratt Institute in New York. Educated in the United States and Europe, his life and work have unfolded between Europe and the Americas. He currently works between Baja California Sur, Mexico, and the Canary Islands, Spain. Kerch has developed a visual language that moves beyond geographic representation to express lived experience in nature.
With a career spanning more than three decades across Europe and the Americas, Kerch has established a strong international presence. In the United Kingdom, his European recognition was confirmed through selection for the Threadneedle Prize for Painting & Sculpture in London, organized by the Federation of British Artists and supported by the Saatchi Gallery. He has participated in major international fair and museum circuits such as Context Art Miami (USA), BARCU (Colombia), and FIA (Venezuela). His work has been exhibited in institutions including museums of the Government of the Canary Islands, the Cabrera Pinto Institute, the Exhibition Hall of the Government of the Canary Islands (Spain), the Centro Cultural de España en México, the Centro de Arte de Sintra (Portugal), Fundación Caixa, Fundación Rucandio, as well as private and institutional collections.
We inhabit an era defined by contemporary philosophers as “liquid times,” a state where solid structures—certainties, borders, and fixed points—vanish to give way to transience and constant flux.
In this context, Luis Kerch’s work emerges as a visual testament to this liquidity, where the landscape is not presented as a static entity, but as matter that blurs and transforms before our eyes. For Kerch, the canvas is not a rigid map, but a container of meditative glazes that function like water: they shape the environment, but never settle into a definitive form. By destroying the image to activate the imagination, the artist embraces the aesthetics of liquid modernity. His paintings are “direct expressions of the inner state,” capturing a world where identity and perception are volatile and slip through our fingers like water itself. In his works, light is the driving force that dissolves boundaries. Kerch constantly repositions his canvas, freeing the scene from a fixed light source. This technical gesture reflects the uncertainty of our era: a play between the ephemeral and that which remains only long enough to be captured. His paintings inhabit a borderless threshold, a perfect metaphor for a society where spaces of belonging are increasingly blurred.
To contemplate the work of Luis Kerch is to immerse oneself in a “sonata toward light” that questions our own reality. It is the art of the ineffable in times when all that is solid vanishes, reminding us that, in this liquid world, the only way to capture beauty is by letting ourselves be carried away by the current of poetic perception.
Earth Art Studio believes in supporting working artists! Purchasing art work and/or contributing a donation for your visit to the sculpture trail helps keep our creative community thriving and making more art!
Currently, the studio is only open for scheduled events and by appointment.
