Marilena Balint

Growing up in communist Romania, any form of artistic creation from literature to painting was strictly controlled and censored. However, 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.
Three years ago, she became obsessed with Japanese philosophy and aesthetics which brought her work to a turning point. She explored one stroke painting and Sumi-e style and once she understood space and silence in creation, wanted to try more complex techniques. By bridging more than 2 mediums in one surface, her paintings flow in rich structure, texture and chromatic emotions.
Her current artistic focus is on “Beginning of The Earth”, the primordial time, an artistic expression of the Earth...

Balint has been practicing medicine for over 30 years – a time period over which she kept her passion for painting alive, developing skills in a number of mediums such as oil, mixed media, coloured pencil, pastels, inks, acrylic oils and resins. Her initiation in fine arts was accomplished during the three years of Vocational Art School she chose to take alongside with her High School education. During those years her oil paintings were exhibited in group and solo events in Bucharest and her home town.She continued to self-teach fine arts being inspired at the begining by impresionists and expressionists .Later she embarked on a new journey guided by abstract works of Zao Wou-Ki ,Frank Bowling and Howard Hodkin.

In recent years, her art has been exhibited and sold  at Keswick (UKCP Exhibition 2014), at Calverton(UKCP  Exhibition 2015) and at “Sheffield Winter Garden-In the frame” between 2015 and 2019 . In 2018, Balint was invited by London-based art gallery, Gabriel Fine Arts, to present her work in a joined exhibition with a Mexican photographer (Krishna VR) under the “Emotional Landscapes” event. Three months later, Balint exposed four canvases at A&D Gallery in the heart of London.