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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 the Academy of Art College with a BFA in Printmaking, she worked in graphic design and was a high school Fine Arts teacher. She also designed and created ceramic tile murals for interiors and exterior spaces. She now devotes 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 with her husband and 3 cats. |