Belinda Balaski
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→ HMVC : Digital display for 30 days in Times Square, NYC (1 painting per) 7/1/23, 8/1/23, 9/1/23, 10/1/23, 11/1/23, 3/1/24, 5/1/24, 8/1/24, 3/1/25
→ Arteom The Power of Memory 3d Virtual Exhibition, Alisa Perone 10/11/23-10/24/23 (4 Pieces: Albuquerque, Amarillo, Cannon Beach, Glory Be
→ Artavita 10/5/23 : Sunset Surfin', Coco Palms, Amarillo, Sweet Grass Valley, and Yosemite which became a 'Finalist"
→ The Holy Art Virtual Gallery : SOLO SHOW: 40 Paintings &40 Poems 7/7-10/7/24
→ Emeritus Art Gallery, Santa Monica, Ca (2 pieces per show 8/7/23,4/26/24, 3/1/25
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→ Circle Arts Magazine : 4//4-7/24 Finalist : Honored by Thomas Tunberg (1/1739 paintings)
→ Circle Quarterly Magazine Contest : Artistic Excellence Award: “Before the Sun Sets” 12/13/23
→ Spotlight Magazine #36 “Hale Waapa” 4/18/24
→ Spotlight Magazine #38 “Everglades” 10/10/24
→ CFA (Circle Foundation of the Arts)
→ Masterful Mind Award : “Rain, O Beautiful Rain” 6/2024
→ Artistic Excellence Award :Before the Sun Sets 12/13/23
→ Myrina Tunberg *Masterful Mind Mag “Lighthouse at Kilauea” 10/18/24
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Belinda Balaski, a native of Southern California, creates colorful watercolor and pastel paintings of people, landscapes, seascapes, flowers, and animals. She is especially fond of painting horses, influenced by her childhood on the racetrack with her father, the well-known jockey, Lester Balaski. Her work focuses on capturing the spirit and unique beauty of living creatures and the natural world. She is motivated by the desire to share a spiritual sense of serenity and peace.
Belinda’s creativity expressed itself at a young age in acting, photography, and art. When not performing in theatre, she was shooting pictures and drawing incessantly. At fourteen she won a four-year scholarship to the Minnesota Corresponding Art School, where she nurtured her affinity for representational art and learned many techniques that serve her well. She loves to do commissioned work whether it be a portrait, a home, or any photo one might wish rendered.
Belinda’s gift for acting took her on a different path. She won many awards and excelled in a 50-year career in Hollywood; you probably know her from any of the 12 films she did with director Joe Dante; The Howling, Piranha, etc., or any of the 50 TV shows she starred in. Belinda created BB’s Kids Acting School, where she taught, filmed, and nurtured thousands of children, all the while writing and producing original plays. These experiences developed her artistic eye for framing, beauty and editing a myriad of choices.
Recently she retired from the film industry and closed her school, to return to her original pursuit of visual art, discovering a passion for watercolor and pastels. Drawing from a well of diverse talents and life experiences, Belinda uses her gift of capturing a feeling with an instinctual ease of composition.
Belinda lives and works in Southern California but spends several months a year on Kauai, her spiritual home, where many of her inspirational paintings are born.
I am an LA/Kauai based artist who specializes in watercolor. In this world of turmoil and chaos, I am forever seeking peace and spiritual tranquility to inspire and share in my work.
As a committed watercolorist, I believe in painting every single day. Sometimes I will paint 2-3 paintings at the same time as they all usually need 'drying time'. It is ultimately important to keep current and keep my 'water color flow'. I realize if a day goes by without painting, usually a few days will then go by and soon enough I begin to doubt my ability to paint. The minute I am flooded with doubt, nothing seems to go right and starting back up is grueling; as if there is lead in my hands and the flow is gone... Keeping a flow alive is far easier than trying to crank it back up when all feels rusty and unnatural; like trying to run from a complete stop. Best to keep the wheels oiled and turning, while tickling one's Muse with a constant brush stroke.
There is so much diversity in watercolors, one can only be limited by one’s own imagination. If you are open to listening to the muse, the flow of the water can lead you where your imagination is endlessly open, allowing the kind of awesome creativity that real “Art” is truly made of. The kind of Art that takes you out of yourself and frees you of all limitations. This is my goal. To allow your eyes to rest on an image that will open and inspire your imagination beyond your physical world, allowing you to relate, yet freely fly...
