Contemporary Argentine-American painter Nadine Baurin operates Nadine Baurin Fine Art at 996 North Coast Highway 101 in Encinitas's Leucadia district. Baurin's palette-knife technique layers oil, watercolor, acrylic, and mixed media into textural compositions influenced by her Buenos Aires upbringing and formal training at Principia College, where she earned a B.A. in Studio Art in 1996 — an artisan approach to material that parallels the handcrafted metalwork at Charming Leucadia nearby on the 101. The gallery hosts solo and group exhibitions from visiting artists alongside Baurin's permanent collection, with showings typically scheduled by appointment outside of Leucadia's Art Walk events. Encaustic, figurative, and nature-inspired series rotate through the space, and aspiring painters studying similar techniques can find structured instruction through Martin Fine Art Classes in the Encinitas arts community. Baurin's largest-format pieces reach multi-panel installations built on heavy-body acrylic gesso grounds over gallery-wrapped cotton duck canvas stretched to 1.5-inch bar depth.