Location: United States
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.
All the colors of the rainbow
dance and intertwine
in the sunsets of Kauai
but I know
only a muse
could have created
a miracle such as this.
As an artist
the most brilliant work
you can do
sometimes
is
get out
of the way
of
the
magic
Sweet Grass Valley
is quiet
farmland
where one
can hear
the sound
of weeds
blowin'
in the wind
and smell
the aroma
of all the
sweet
grasses...
is quiet
farmland
where one
can hear
the sound
of weeds
blowin'
in the wind
and smell
the aroma
of all the
sweet
grasses...
Hale Wa'apa
where papa stored his boat
was built so long ago
it's a wonder it's still
standing
My great great
grandpa built it
150 years ago
when the winds
would blow
into hurricanes
and it seemed
the ropes
would no longer
hold
we'd bring her
inside the boathouse
the hale waapa
tho the winds have
blown even the
splintering wood
apart
like a sieve
but somehow
the old ways
still seem to
protect
the new ways
where as
the new ways
can barely
protect
them
selves
“Before the Sun Sets”
“Sweet Grass Valley”
“Hale Wa'apa”
