Over the past few months, I’ve been sharing each of the artists participating in our H2O exhibition, one per week. If you’ve missed any of them or you want to revisit, you can click this link to see them all.
I love the diversity of artwork we have in this exhibition and the different approaches each artist took with our common theme of water. I’m so pleased to share these talented artists and their work with you. So even if you can’t see the exhibition in person, you can get a virtual view of it through this blog series. Enjoy!
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: Drawing from her Polish roots and life in Baja, Natalia Szalc creates sculptural ceramic works that explore the interconnectedness between humanity and nature. Mushrooms, moss, and organic textures become metaphors for transformation, resilience, and feminine energy. The ceramic sculptures merge human anatomy with the language of the forest, inviting contemplation in both intimate and open spaces.
FEMININE LANDSCAPES INSTALLATION Ceramic Entire Installation: 173,000 MXN Pieces available individually, please inquire for pricing, Commissions welcome
About the Art:
This series of ceramic vessels invites an exploration of the landscapes of feminine sexuality through the intimate and symbolic medium of clay. Rooted in the idea that we are all made of water—an element that holds memory, absorbs energy, and reflects our innermost beliefs—these vessels act as metaphors for the dynamic connection between the body and the mind.
Water, in its fluid and transformative nature, mirrors our thoughts, words, and images, influencing our reality and shifting the very core of our beliefs. The forms of the vessels evoke female sexual organs, creating a visual dialogue about pleasure, connection, and self-awareness.
You are invited to confront societal judgments and expectations surrounding femininity and sexuality. With a sense of playfulness and openness, the work encourages a deep connection to the water within us.
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.
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: A visual artist born in Spain (1990), he has resided in Todos Santos since 2019. His beginnings were in urban art, and he later earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. Traveling and using art as a means of livelihood distinguish him as a place-based artist, drawing inspiration from the places he visits and immersing himself in. Over the past six years, he has settled in Todos Santos, where the murals and exhibitions he has created have further connected him to the community. His work is intimately linked to the landscape and nature, as well as the culture and current development of Baja California Sur. While painting and muralism are his forte, he is open to experimenting with other techniques.
HIERRO, TIEMPO + AGUA #1, #2 + #3 | Hierro y Agua | 40,000, 15,000, 15,000 MXN
About the Art:
The work explores the role of water as a transformative force in a territory where its presence is simultaneously abundant and scarce. Using seawater to oxidize the metal transforms this element into an active agent. The artist attempts to control the gesture, the brushstroke, as if it were a painting. Time, oxidation, and the nature of the elements play their own part, and one simply adapts to the conditions of nature.
Far from symbolizing deterioration, oxidation is presented as a natural process of transformation. The metal—associated with industry, permanence, and humanity—becomes landscape under the action of the saline water, recalling the vulnerability of all matter to time and the elements.
From a Southern Baja Californian context, the work can also be interpreted as territorial memory: an imprint of the climate, the nearby sea, and the slow erosion that defines both the desert landscape and the experience of inhabiting it. Each piece functions as a physical record of the encounter between nature, time, and human gesture.
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.
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:
Saskia Onvlee was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1984. She studied at the Universidad Nacional de Arte, where she oriented her practice toward printmaking and further developed her work at the Gráfica p/a workshop, led by Patricio Bosch and Ana Noya. Since 2008, she has actively participated in exhibitions, competitions, and residency programs, consolidating an expanded approach to the graphic language.
In 2015, she relocated with Carlos Domin to Todos Santos, in the state of Baja California Sur, México. Since then, they have co-directed La Sonrisa de la Muerte, an independent space dedicated to the production, dissemination, and support of emerging contemporary printmaking practices.
In 2025, they inaugurated La Liebre Press, their new studio located north of Todos Santos, conceived as a site for production and exchange where she develops her work and leads workshops, expanding her commitment to printmaking as a living, collective, and constantly evolving practice.
Stream | Mixed Media on Textile | NFS
About the Art:
Stream
A blue flow, a ritual garment moving through different scenarios and bodies.
A space of longing, faith, wisdom, uncertainty, and refuge.
Along its vital trajectory, it becomes charged with the hands that hold and mend it; hands that trust, that care, and that communicate.
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.
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:
Mexican multidisciplinary artist. Holds a BFA from the Faculty of Arts and Design (UNAM) where he participated in the interdisciplinary workshop “La Colmena” with renown artist José Miguel Gonzalez Casanova, specializing in alternative media for contemporary art. He has developed professionally as an artist, activist, gallerist, jury member, museum guide, workshop facilitator, lecturer, and jeweler. His artistic projects have explored speculative anthropology and new materialisms, examining how technology, culture, and nature intertwine as part of a critical ecological awareness necessary for our times. His work has been featured on radio and T.V. programs, such as: Radio Ibero (2018) and Radio UABCS (2024), TV Mar CPS Noticias, (2024), Greater Belize Media TV 5 News (2025), and printed newspapers and magazines such as: El Sudcaliforniano (2024), Excelsior Supplement (2017), La Tribuna de México (2024), and El Diario de Yucatán (2024), La Piedra (2011), online magazines such as: Artishock (2024) and Cultura Colectiva (2017). He has participated in international artist residencies in Berlin, New York City, and Belmopán. Murillo’s work has been selected for solo and group exhibitions in biennials, national museums, galleries, and festivals across Mexico, Germany, Cuba, USA, and Colombia. Collaborating with non-profit organizations that promote peace culture and environmental stewardship such as the Environmental Department of La Paz City Council, Baja California Sur. ConArte, A.C., Mexican Navy Secretariat, and the Ministry of Public Education (SEP), serving as a jury member for the 47th National Contest “The Child and the Sea, 2024,” SEP, Baja California Sur. As a speaker, he has participated in art and science conferences such as the Alameda Art Laboratory, the Center for Complexity Sciences C3, UNAM (2023), the III Mexican Symposium on Plastic Pollution of the Mexican Association for Plastic Waste Analysis (AMARP, Mérida, Yucatán, 2024), and BIO-LIZE Art, Sustainability & Community in Motion, University of Belize (2025). He has led large-scale citizen single-use plastic collection campaigns through OXXO retail chain stores in La Paz, B.C.S. As a gallerist, he founded the contemporary art gallery DESIERT@BIERTO during the @abcartbaja festival at Zona Maco in 2024.
This Lost-wax aluminum-cast utilitarian sculpture is the result of an on-going art practice gathering and recycling hundreds of littered aluminum cans and six-pack single-use plastic rings that strangle and pollute our environment through the apparently innocent and never-ending beer beverage consumption in local beaches of Baja California Sur, Mexico.
For H2O exhibition the artist’s aesthetic exploration of forms think of water as the common space where the elegance of water lilies meet the deepness and frailness of coral reefs on the brink of extinction. Through turning trash into beauty, the artist reminds us that real alchemy can only exist with our coordinated effort as humans to love and protect our only habitable ecosystem: planet earth.
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.
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 Artists:
Rudy Mendoza is a Mexican artist that merges sculpture and architecture. His practice explores the concept of spirituality through contemplation in everyday life.
Oso Mango is a multidisciplinary Mexican artist working across painting, sculpture, installation, and digital media. His practice explores the space between the organic and the technological.
twin mirrors | metal + water | 60,000 mxn
About the Art:
This work explores two conditions that, when brought together, quietly disrupt the familiar: the liquid state of matter and black understood as non-color. Liquid has no fixed form. It adapts to the shape that contains it, replicating without possessing, transforming without touching. Its identity is relational—it exists through response and continual adjustment. In this absence of form lies a clear lesson: what does not fix itself can perceive more, because it is not bound to a single appearance.
Black appears here not as pigment, but as an active absence. It is not a void that diminishes meaning, but a reduction that concentrates it. When the water is darkened, transparency ceases to function as a passage and becomes depth. We no longer look through it; we look into it. Within that depth, details emerge that clarity often erases: reflections of the sky, subtle vibrations, slight shifts of light that reveal movement, time, and presence.
For this reason, the work feels closely aligned with astronomy. In the universe, the most decisive forces do not always shine. Black holes cannot be observed directly; they are known through the way they bend light and affect the matter around them. In a similar way, this black liquid field does not represent the night—it renders it legible through its effects. Absence becomes an instrument. The invisible becomes perceptible not by appearing, but by leaving traces.
There is also an ancient echo in this gesture. Maya astronomers studied the cosmos through patient observation of patterns—cycles, returns, displacements. Here, darkness and fluidity form a small terrestrial observatory: a space where the cosmic scale descends into material experience, and where looking is not about consuming images, but refining attention.
At the intersection of non-form and non-color, the work proposes something both simple and demanding: that reality often becomes clearer when we stop insisting on fixed contours and definitive tones. Sometimes, to see more, one must remove. And allow the world—like water—to settle, revealing in its depth what usually goes unnoticed.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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: Mexico 1960 Josel is a highly accomplished Mexican illustrator, he has dedicated himself to editorial design and illustration for over 40 years. He has won several awards, including the National Journalism Prize in 2009 in the caricature category.
Since 2019, he has lived in San Miguel de Allende, where he creates unique and one-of-a-kind automata from recycled objects.
bañista | mixed media | 20,880mxn tributo amarillo | mixed media | 23,200mxn nada dor | mixed media | sold hipo surfo | mixed media | 17,400mxn
About the Art:
The intention of the works is for the viewer to become aware of how water is an essential part of our lives, not only as a vital liquid, but also as that element that by relating to it and taking care of it we are valuing as much as our own life.
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.
