Website: https://www.balaski-art.com/
“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 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..”
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Belinda Balaski,, a native of Southern California , creates colorful watercolors 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 watercolors 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 Calif but spends several months a year on Kauai, her spiritual home, where many of her inspired paintings are born.
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Kealia is a windy beach
On the east side of Kauai
Where the surf is always
Cresting
In a breeze
And the waves
Are always
Just a bit wild
Half the sand’s
Been drawn
Away by the
Pounding surf
that reaches out
And pulls it under
Like a croc
Will roll his catch
The beach has such a slant
That you can roll
Straight away
Into the water
I used to ride Whitehoof
Bareback all the way from
Kapahi where Valley House
Still stood proud
From Captain James McKee
And Colonel Zephaniah Spalding
There were even remnants of
The porcelain plates
Wilhelmina would delicately
Paint when wheeled down
By the firsts waterfall
With her parasol to
Protect her delicate
Freckles
Whitehoof had never
Seen a wave before
And reared up to the sound
of the crashing water
But soon I had him
Still breathing hard
But walking gingerly
Along the edge of the
Waterline and soon
He was running
Running on the
wet packed sand
As the waves
cooled his legs
And eventually
Loved to
go down
With me to
Kealia Beach
For the
sunrise
