Stella Maria Baer is a painter and photographer from Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Stella has many veins in her body of work, paintings of moons and planets the colors of the land where she grew up, many of them made from rocks and stones along the highways where she used to go camping with her mom when she was little. Then she has the vein of western mystic oil paintings of women and children riding birds, antelope, and horses through western landscapes. Both veins are rooted in the land where Stella grew up, the land where she lives with her family. These veins are painted prayers, embodying the relationships between human beings and the cosmos, horses and land, flora and fauna, moon and sky.

Stella's paintings and photographs have been featured by The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Time Magazine, Scientific American, Architectural Digest, Sunset Magazine, Westword, and ArtNews. Her pieces are in public, private, and museum collections all over the world.

Stella lives on a little ranch south of Santa Fe with her husband Seth and their three children, Wyeth, Whitman, and Winona, two horses they rescued from kill pens, an appaloosa named Moon and Stars and a baby pinto named Sky, and a flock of wooly goats.