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Biography

Belinda Balaski, a native of Southern California, creates colorful and diversified watercolor paintings. 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 Correspondence Art School.

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, including The Howling, Piranha, Gremlins I & II, etc., or any of the 50 TV shows and MOWs she starred in. These experiences developed her artistic eye for framing, beauty, and editing a myriad of choices. Drawing from a well of diverse talents and life experiences, Belinda uses her gift of capturing a feeling with an instinctual ease of composition.

Recently, she retired from the film industry and closed her BB’s Kids Acting 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.

Having shot decades of Rock & Roll, she is just releasing her Coffee Table Collector’s Edition of “Rockin’ the Causes,” a photo journal of 50 years of Cause Concerts, with an open signing on Nov. 14, 2026. She is donating a portion of her sales to the National Veterans Foundation for housing and mental health.

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.

Artist Statement

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 by 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...

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