Have you visited the online shop lately?
We have wearables, stickers, books and more available! We will be adding more products in soon for local pick up in Todos Santos but if you’re from out of the area, there are downloadable books and classes too!
You can also donate to our sculpture garden to help us keep it growing and share our space with educational groups!
It took me about four years of trial and a lot of errors to figure out how to make these porcelain urchin and medusa pieces consistently successful. Now, a small simple urchin form takes me about an hour to make and I have a pretty high confidence that it will make it through the kiln firing process. Although, larger and more complex forms can take much longer to create. Here’s a little time-lapse video of the process…
The heat of summer has officially descended on us in the desert! If you want to come sweat it out with us over here, we just posted our summer rates for tours of the studio and sculpture garden.
These rates will only be good through the end of September, so take advantage of the off season rates while you can!
Don’t forget a hat and sunscreen!
The team of eight at Barro Sur are showing off their personal ceramic works at Galeria Todos Santos, and it’s a pretty spectacular exhibit! If you missed the opening last Friday, there’s still time to get in there and check out the amazing talent of this team.
My medusas under bell jars are the glowing with this amazing Michael Cope cloud painting behind them.
The exhibit will be up for the next few weeks, so be sure to pop in while you’re cruising around el centro!
Now that our big exhibition has ended, I’m getting to reclaim my studio and experiment with new ideas. I’ve been wanting to experiment with cyanotype on fabrics, using my porcelain plankton pieces as the masking objects and I finally got the time to play with it. These are all just tests but I’m so excited by the results and I think there’s a lot of potential with this idea. I love that the translucent edges of the porcelain let enough light through to recreate that glow on the fabric.
You might remember making cyanotypes when you were a kid with a blue paper and some collected leaves and flowers, you’d expose it to the UV rays of the sun and then rinse it off, revealing the silhouette of the objects. It’s one of the oldest and simplest photography processes to do – and that Prussian blue is so gorgeous its hard not to be mesmorized by the process and results.
Here’s the process of my experiments:
Now to order more materials in bulk!
Fresh out of the kiln, these new Art Hearts with Baja inspired designs are super sweet!
They are available as ornaments or on metal stems to plant in the garden. Each one is hand made and glazed individually and at 500p each, they make great gifts!
We’re open by appointment only, so please drop us a message if you’d like to come pick some up!
I’ve been so busy lately sharing updates and events at the studio plus the work of other artists, that my own work has been slightly back burnered. Which is not to say that I haven’t been making work, I just haven’t been sharing as much as in the past. So to bring you back into the fold of my own work, here’s the latest work to leave the studio.
Water Columns | Ceramic, Steel, Cable | 80,000 mxn/4600usd each
Water Columns are an expansion of the Bone Series which explores the unseen world of plankton. My interest in planktons began with microscopic images of radiolarians (single cell zooplankton) that have intricate and beautiful skeletal structures. In doing more research about them, I discovered just how important they are for the health of the planet.
Plankton are the base of the aquatic food web, they provide half of the planet’s oxygen and they absorb carbon out of the atmosphere, trapping it in the deep oceans when they die. I finds inspiration in the fact that even though they are too small to be seen with the naked eye, a bloom of plankton can be so large that it can be seen from space. In light of our changing climate, sharing the importance of these tiny and beautiful water based creatures seems vital to understanding how we are all connected.
It was fun to receive this video of travel bloggers who visited Whidbey Island, WA where one of my pieces lives at the Price Sculpture Forest. The Lichen Series | Spore Patterns installation was created in 2021 and is among dozens of amazing sculptures embedded into the landscape of the forest – definitely plan a visit if you’re in the area! The Sculpture Forest is featured at about the 8 minute 50 second mark on the video – check it out!
About the Art: Lichen Series | Spore Patterns:
This piece is inspired by the biological structures of mushroom gills and the patterns the spores leave behind. The over 300 ceramic forms are based on a type of shelf fungus that has a leathery surface and wedge shaped form that anchors itself to the side of decaying trees. This piece is a 12 foot diameter circle about 18″ high off the ground and is placed at the Price Sculpture Forest on Whidbey Island in Washington state.
Conceptually, mushrooms speak of the cycle of life and death, since mycelium begins breaking down the dead waste in nature and the fruits of the mycelium (the mushrooms) are the new growth that comes from it. The spores that are dropped from the mushroom gills, spread the growth and the cycle continues. Mycelium are some of the largest living organisms on earth stretching underground over miles of terrain creating networks of communication throughout the landscape. This network makes them a symbol of growth through connection and how we are all connected to each other and to the systems and structures of nature.
Once again, I am equally amazed and delighted by all of you who came out to find us in the middle of the desert and share in our art adventures! By our count, we welcomed nearly 200 visitors for the opening reception of H2O! What?!?
Thank you so much to everyone who attended and to all the amazing artists who put some very long days into making the work for this exhibition – it is absolutely extraordinary!
We love supporting working artists, so if you saw some art that you’re interested in purchasing, please contact us. Local delivery is included in your purchase and shipping options are available.
If you missed the opening – don’t worry! The exhibition runs through the end of May and we have lots of pop-up events happening in the coming months. You can also book a private tour of the studio and sculpture garden – so come visit!
We are SO grateful for everyone who has donated to our sculpture garden mission!
With your help we are able to create new sculptures for the permanent collection of the Earth Art Studio sculpture garden, off-set local artists costs for exhibiting here, maintain the trails + make upgrades to the garden but most importantly, make visits free to local schools + educational groups.
We have installed new 3D ceramic GRACIAS letters in the garden and are creating personalized plaques for each donor. New native plants are being added alongside ceramic creations, it is a perpetual work in progress!
Want to be a part of it?
Click here to donate and we’ll make a plaque to add to the garden in your honor!
