Biography
Raquel Baldocchi is a mixed media painter born and raised in San Francisco, CA. She grew up and attended school in the city, and spent summers, holidays and weekends on her family's ranch in San Juan Bautista, CA. Her mother's family, fourth generation ranchers from Salinas, helped shape her strong sense of bonding, heritage and family ties. Her father's parents were Italian and Salvadoran immigrants, from whom she draws a strong identity of culture, language and art.
Raquel identified as an artist from early childhood, always observing, drawing and making things by hand. Her father was an industrial/graphic designer and painter. His tools of the trade were always in use and on display in his workroom in the home, and served as inspiration to her artistic sensibilities. In both primary and secondary school, Raquel took advantage of every art-making opportunity available to her. After graduating from art school with a BFA in Printmaking, she pursued a variety of professional endeavors in the arts including graphic design, Fine Arts education, and handmade ceramic tile mural design. For the past several years she has devoted her time to the development of her art practice in her studio in the ICB building in Sausalito, CA.
In addition to making abstract/figurative mixed-media paintings, Raquel has embarked on a project which interweaves her family history documentation and her art. You can see some of that content here on her blog.
She currently lives in San Francisco
Raquel identified as an artist from early childhood, always observing, drawing and making things by hand. Her father was an industrial/graphic designer and painter. His tools of the trade were always in use and on display in his workroom in the home, and served as inspiration to her artistic sensibilities. In both primary and secondary school, Raquel took advantage of every art-making opportunity available to her. After graduating from art school with a BFA in Printmaking, she pursued a variety of professional endeavors in the arts including graphic design, Fine Arts education, and handmade ceramic tile mural design. For the past several years she has devoted her time to the development of her art practice in her studio in the ICB building in Sausalito, CA.
In addition to making abstract/figurative mixed-media paintings, Raquel has embarked on a project which interweaves her family history documentation and her art. You can see some of that content here on her blog.
She currently lives in San Francisco
