Suki Baker is an Ashland-based mixed media artist who uses mostly reclaimed materials to create art inspired by bold colors, portraiture, the natural world, and the souls & stories of found materials. 

Suki uses mostly reclaimed materials to make textile collage, mixed media and found object art in her home studio in Southern Oregon. She also mindfully reproduces her designs as prints on archival paper and wood panels. She's been known to throw some other creative expressions from her crafting roots into the marketplace: stuff like flag garlands made from her fabric scrap waste, and small batches of appliquéd pillows. Her current obsession is creating biological portraits of local flora, rendered in foraged fabrics.

Suki forages through thrift stores and other second-hand resources, collecting raw materials for her vibrant, playful, and occasionally creepy, art works that celebrate beauty found in cast-off and overlooked materials. Whether it’s a vintage skirt, a well-worn album cover, or a porcelain doll torso, the material reality of the object constrains how it will be used. She's constantly inspired by the element of chance inherent in working with reclaimed materials. 

She's a California native, and spent most of her adult life in Oakland, loving the energy of city life and finding inspiration and beauty in the cityscapes, as well as in pockets of nature only discoverable on foot or by bike. Then, after five years of kicking around various locales along the California coast, Suki and her husband re-planted themselves in gorgeous Southern Oregon in 2023. She loves exploring her new environs, absorbing all the new plants, mountains, rivers, and mystery of this rich bioregion.