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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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We were raised on these songs
They run thru my head
Like a herd of wild horses
Thundering thru my veins
The very fabric of which I was formed
Sculpted by the beauty of my peaceful
Brothers and sisters
Whose hearts beat in the right places
Whose accared about the right way
The simple way truthful way
And then they shot them
One by one
Just after they took my Daddy
The hero of my life
They took the heroes
Of my world
Jack, Bobby, Martin, Malcolm, John
On my birthday they took John
Imprisoned Leonard, burned down the house
Of Trudell where his wife
Was peacefully asleep with their children
How do you live
After so many
Cuts to the heart
The tears we cried
The futility we felt
All of our dreams
Stabbed and mutilated
Tossed somewhere
under a bus
Leaving little hope
For the rest of us
Our youthful shimmer
Dwindled to a pale gray
And most of us
Just went home
Got jobs
And did all the things
We promised ourselves
We’d never
Ever
Ever…