Working on EBISU
Working on OBAKE
Balint was born in 1968 in Romania, where she lived for 40 years before moving to the United Kingdom in 2009.
Growing up in communist Romania, any form of artistic creation from literature to painting was strictly controlled and censored. However, at the age of 14 she enrolled in the local art school in her hometown – Focsani – where she encountered for the first time the fascinating and dynamic world of oil painting. Balint embrace painting as a form of self-expression, which was often supressed by the authoritarian ideology which dominated Romania after World War II.
What she painted was more or less dictated by the communist believes of the time but how she painted was not. As an adolescent, Balint painted on clothes, creating unique garments which were seen as sign of authority defiance by her teachers and colleagues. At the age of 20, along many other students, she rebelled against the communist regime, rallying in the streets during the 1989 revolution that eventually led to democracy being restored in Romania.
Balint has been practising medicine for 30 years-a time period over which she kept her passion for painting alive, developing skills in a number of mediums such as oils, mixed media ,coloured pencil ,pastels, inks ,acrylic ,oils and resins ,charcoal and graphite.
Her initiation in fine arts was developed during the three years of Art School she choose to take alongside with her High School education. During those years her oils were exhibited in group and solo events in Bucharest and her home town .She continued to self-teach arts being inspired at the beginning by impressionists and expressionists. Later she embarked on a new journey inspired by abstract works of ZaoWou-Ki ,Frank Bowling AND Howard Hodgkin.
Mixing oils
Oils pastels used on MURONI