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Ruiz and Garcia Create Love in Life and Artwork
When one strolls via the fabulous Puerto Vallarta Saturday Olas Altas market the art work of Mauricio Vargas Ruiz and Alberto Trejo Garcia is bound to catch your eye.
This Vallarta couple practices inventive recycling and creates handmade whimsical and colourful paper mache animals, flowers, jewellery, and platters.
Their lovely array of merchandise vary from small take-home souvenirs at $250 pesos to bigger dwelling décor artworks for $1,750 pesos. Photograph by Oscar Almeida.
The artists met of their dwelling metropolis of León within the central Mexican state of Guanajuato. On their very first date in December 2003, it was love at first sight and Mauricio requested Beto to maneuver to Vallarta with him. Virtually twenty years later they’re nonetheless right here – and nonetheless a pair in life and in artwork.
Mauricio was initially a civil engineer, however a buddy who was an expert puppeteer arrived in Leon for a serious artwork honest together with his baggage and all his puppets lacking, so Mauricio and pals got here collectively to be taught the artwork of paper mache from a grasp. They labored feverishly for the following few days to assist him change all of the misplaced work and the massive transition from engineer to artist was born.
The method itself is fascinating.
Mauricio Vargas Ruiz and Alberto Trejo Garcia’s art work is bound to catch the attention. This Vallarta couple practices inventive recycling and creates handmade whimsical and colourful paper mache animals, flowers, jewellery, and platters. Photograph by Oscar Almeida.
Mauricio explains that step one is gathering cardboard egg cartons from the native mercados. At their workshop the cartons are lower into items and soaked in water for twenty-four hours, then smashed by hand on cement. Glue, flour, and lime are then added to make the paste that’s now able to be utilized to the unique plaster molds they create. Then every bit is sanded and painted with a white base coat earlier than making use of an array of shiny colours and a coat of varnish. Generally they depart the artwork unpainted in order that the black and white newspaper copy is the star of a extra rustic creation, akin to their line of cheeky chihuahuas, however they are saying it’s their shiny tropical colour palette that pulls the patrons to their wares.
When requested his favorite animal to create, Mauricio shares that it’s the humble frog “as a result of Mom Nature makes frogs of all colours, some lovely and a few scary.”
Different favourite works embody a collection of owls, some in tecolote (conventional Aztec), and others in additional trendy Mexican buho type.
Their lovely array of merchandise vary from small take-home souvenirs at $250 pesos to bigger dwelling décor artworks for $1,750 pesos. The typical value of their items is $400 to $600 pesos. Vacationers love the simple journey objects like earrings, pendants and the smaller animals, whereas many new Vallarta residents are shopping for the larger items to show of their condos.
Mauricio Vargas Ruiz and Alberto Trejo Garcia. Photograph by Oscar Almeida.
Mauricio and Alberto, like many, had a tough time in the course of the pandemic however they are saying these struggles resulted in them turning into much more artistic and made them stronger.
They hope to quickly resume educating workshops for others to be taught the artwork of paper mache and would love to listen to from a gallery that’s taken with displaying and promoting their creations.
You may preview their work on Fb at Papelmache2013 or on Instagram at papiermachepv.
Even higher, go and go to them in individual on the Olas Altas Farmer’s Market in Lázaro Cárdenas Park the place you will see that them each Saturday from early November to mid-Might.
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