Encaustic Arts Magazine Winter 2014 | Page 23

Martha Rea Baker Biography
Martha Rea Baker was born in Texas , lived as a child in Mississippi and received her BA in English Literature from the University of California , Santa Barbara in 1965 . She lived in Plano , Texas where she co-owned Gallery VIII for twenty-one years before relocating to Santa Fe , NM in late 2006 . Baker studied art design and drawing at the University of Dallas , Dallas , TX and life drawing and portfolio printmaking at Collin College in Plano , TX , as well as art foreign studies in Greece , Italy , Germany and the Czech Republic with Katherine Chang Liu and in Mexico , France and Russia with the late Rob Erdle .
Chosen for more than eighty-five invitational exhibits throughout the US , Baker ’ s paintings have also been published in Splash : The Glory of Color , Southwest Art Magazine , Watercolor Magazine , Pasatiempo and The Albuquerque Journal . In 2001 her watercolor collage , Russian Renaissance , was included in the international exhibit , Watercolors Without Boundaries , Texas-Italia in Milan , Italy .
Martha Rea Baker is represented by Karan Ruhlen Gallery , Santa Fe , NM and Browns Fine Art , Jackson , MS
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