Location: United States
Belinda Balaski Bio
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.
Belinda’s gift for acting took her on a different path. She won many awards and excelled in a 50-year career in Hollywood. She 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. She enrolled in courses at Emeritus College, 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.
Tapping color into water is truly its own kind of magic; simply called watercolor
I am an LA/Kauai based artist who specializes in watercolor and pastels. I am forever seeking peace and spiritual tranquility in my work, drawn from a myriad of life experiences that have etched; people, landscapes, seascapes, animals, faces, children, and a zillion more images inspired from these cellular memories, into my very soul. .
There is so much diversity in watercolors, one can only be limited by one’s own imagination. But if you are open to listening to the muse, tuning into the moment, 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 and yet freely fly...
I am driven to learn and understand diverse cultures. I am fascinated by different countries and their lifestyles,
thus I tend to create images that suggest the essence of life in various countries.
This was painted from a photo of the parking lot at Anini Beach, Kauai,
From a photo of my friend's son
My Father was a jockey, so I was raised on horses. My favorite memories of him are at Del Mar, where back in the day when I was 18-10yrs old, we would take the thoroughbreds out under the freeway at 5am to the ocean with a bunch of other jocks and trainers. I was sucha good rider Dad let me come. We'd ride bareback & barefooted since the horses would swim out way over their heads. They loved to swim and I felt perfectly safe (as a good swimmer) with Dad and all the experts around me! It was heavenly!
“Maui”
“A Village in Guinea”
“Before the Sunsets”
“Jaya”
“Nearly Summer”
“A Coastal Canter”
