Meet the Artist Behind Our Gallery

Belinda is a self-taught artist, expressing her love for nature and its fragile beauty through her passion for art. As a child growing up in a family of nine in Missouri, art was a favorite recreation that manifested itself into dreams of painting dolphins and whales in Hawaii. Her high school and college years found her preoccupied with math, science, and languages, and not one art class. She worked in the inner city and her social awareness led her to graduate with honors from the university as a social worker. One year later she began to paint, without any training. Painting was part-time until 1995, when a mastectomy motivated her to make positive choices in her life, one of which was to make art her full-time pursuit. Fifteen years of painting portraits helped to develop her discipline to paint what she sees. Revealing a person’s spirit, bringing them to life on canvas, is an art she applies to her animal subjects, as well, above and below the surface of the sea. Maui is her home since 1981. She loves to paint what she sees. The joy and wonder of Maui’s diverse natural beauty are portrayed as if one were looking through a window.

Belinda’s works are cherished for her technical skills as well as their aesthetic qualities. Her style is traditional, applying the paint by stroke of the brush. Thousands of brush strokes combined with countless transparent layers creates silken smoothness and rich texture to delight and bring a joyful experience to the heart of the beholder.

Works by Belinda are currently collected around the world.

Belinda can be emailed directly at [email protected]