About The Artist

Balesh is a doctor by profession, yet she has been painting for the past twenty five years. Balesh has had many group and Solo shows in Delhi and many cities of India and abroad. Her paintings adorn the walls of numerous prominent art collectors within the country and abroad. Her home was featured on the cover of a leading design magazine Ideal Homes and Gardens in October 2013. Amongst her most reviewed shows are a three city show in South Africa in 2012 In Durban Pretoria and Johannesburg A successful solo show at the Visual Art Gallery which received tremendous response by the press and art critics. A solo show at the Nehru Centre, London sponsored by ICCR received good reviews by the UK media. Balesh generally refrains from titling her paintings because she finds that a word, or phrase, can never truly articulate the emotion; she does, however, accompany her paintings with a verse. Balesh has honed her skills with the palette knife. Her works have a very rich texture and luminosity as her work combines the art of painting and sculpture on paper as the paints roll on the canvas directly from the tubes. It has an expressionist look. Her works have a romance in them that is difficult to describe yet can be felt as one views her works and gets transported to the imaginary world of story telling and emotions that cannot be described in words. The essence of her art has to be felt in silence. The obvious question is why a doctor would feel the need to paint. ‘Why not ‘says Balesh .It is most natural for a doctor to feel the need to express her self esp. when one is inundated with so much suffering, so much misery and so much observation of the human race. Watching the best of people fall to the lowest depths and the worst of them rise to saintly levels of goodness. The mind is numbed by questions and doubts and then all one can do is turn to art. If turns into a form of meditation for her. Why figurative? I have been asked over and over again. People, and the way they live and behave fascinate her. She keenly observes each fleeting emotion on the faces she sees and holds it in her mind. She smiles and quotes Sartre 'Everything has been figured out, Except how to live!’