- Arts Awards Adviser Training (Bronze and Silver), Trinity College London
Baljit Balrow
Artist & Creative Mentor
About Me
Artist and Creative Mentor of 20 years.
About Me
I have been practicing as a professional Artist for over 20 years. I studied Foundation studies in Art and Design and a Degree in Visual Art.
10 years as a creative Mentor to Students and an Arts Awards Adviser Trinity College London.
My work has been influenced by a wide range of interests in music, fashion, cinematography, interior design and nature.
What I Do
I admire those who can articulate words to allow someone to visualise their imagination. For me, it is the language of colour and markings which allow me to do the same.
I challenge the relationship between colours to describe an atmosphere, a story or an intense feeling. I overlap paints, scrape through to reveal another pigment or place colours beside each other. Sometimes I strip pigments until they are barely there, I challenge viscosity and I layer a single colour until it injects you with its luminosity.
Nothing is planned but everything is done deliberately until the feeling I want to convey on that canvas has been reached.
The Studio
Current Works
Back to Blue
Acrylic on Board
90 x 90 cm POA
Betty’s Blue Dress
Acrylic on Board
90 x 90 cm POA
Hanoi
Gloss on Board
62 x 41 x 4cm SOLD Giclee prints available
Basement
Gloss and Acrylic on Board
30 x 27 cm POA
Illumination Teardrop
Gloss and Acrylic on Board
90 x 90 cm POA
Light Market
Mixed Media on Canvas
30 x 30 cm POA
Vintage Yellow
Acrylic and Gloss on Canvas
100 x 100cm SOLD
Toy Factory
Acrylic and Gloss on Canvas
122 x 91 x 2cm POA
Negotiation
Acrylic and Gloss on Canvas
Framed SOLD Giclee prints available
Champagne Breakfast
Gloss and Acrylic on Board
76 x 61 cm POA
Pink and Two Teapots
Gloss and Acrylic on Board
76 x 61 cm POA
Green Bedroom Slippers
Gloss and Acrylic on Board
76 x 61 cm POA
Garden Party
Gloss and Acrylic on Board
76 x 61 cm SOLD Giclee prints available
Sun Room
Gloss and Acrylic on Board
30 x 27 cm SOLD
Sun Room 2
Gloss and Acrylic on Board
30 x 27 cm SOLD
Fizz
Gloss and Acrylic on Board
76 x 61 cm SOLD
Giclee Prints available to order
Biography & Exhibitions
- Northampton University (Nene College)
- Kent Institute of Art and Design, Maidstone, Kent
- Museum of Kent Life Cobtree, Maidstone. Open Studio
- Future Creative Practitioner- workshops for schools and Creative Prof Dev
- Individual creative mentoring for adults and students.
- Museum of Kent Life, creative workshops for schools, ages 4-16 years
- Somerset Maugham Gallery, Horsebridge, Whitstable
- Small Hythe Studios - Poetry and Nature
- Somerset Maugham Gallery, Horsebridge, Whitstable
- Gatwick South Terminal-BBC South East Diamond Jubilee Photo Mosaic
- Turner Margate- BBC South East Diamond Jubilee Photo Mosaic
- Eastbourne Gallery – BBC South East Diamond Jubilee Photo Mosaic
- Liberty Gallery, West Malling, Kent
- NPG, National Portrait Gallery, London 'Look at Me'
- Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
- Museum of Kent Life Cobtree, Maidstone
- Manchester Art Gallery
- Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast
- National Portrait Gallery, London (Self Portrait UK/ Channel 4)
- National Museum &Gallery, Cardiff
- Barnet Theatre
- Piccadilly Tube Station, London with 'Platform Art'
- Bharatiya Bhavan Gallery, W Kensington, London
- 'Message to India' Six month touring Exhibition with The British Council and Derby University
- Rugby Art Gallery and Museum, 'Self assembly Exhibition'
- the City Gallery' Leicester, Self Assembly Exhibition
- Pure Gallery, London 'East Up' Group Exhibition
- De Montfort University, Leicester, Work used as the subject of discussion by Gen Doy, a lecturer
- One Gallery, Brick Lane, London.
- Hammersmith Apollo 'Indian Bollywood Convention', London
- 'the City Gallery' Leicester, 24 month touring exhibition
- De Montfort Hall, Leicester
- West End Neighbourhood Centre, Leicester
- Nepher Hall, Leicester
- Phoenix Arts Centre, Leicester
- Manor House Neighbourhood Centre, Leicester
- Saffron Resource Centre, Leicester
- Cochrane Theatre, London, 'Ex-centric' A conference/exhibition on the survival of cultural identity politics in the Visual Arts of the 90's
- Grosvenor Centre, Northampton, Spring Show 98
- Duke Street Gallery, Northampton- set up and exhibited at Artist Run Gallery
- Grosvenor Centre, Northampton Spring Show 97
- 'Channel 4 Book'
- The Guardian 'The Guide' article 'Art is Black' Culturally Diverse Artists
- The Guardian Newspaper,in assoc with Decibel'Reinventing Britain', front Cover
- Channel 4, Self Portrait UK.Interview: Cultural Diversity in Britain.
- BBC Asian Network, Biographic interview: A British Asian Artist
- Carlton Television short feature biographic interview of solo show at ‘ the City Gallery’ Leicester.
- 'Make', Women's Art magazine, Front Cover, Portrait with Union Jack'
Get In Touch
Say Hello
baljitbalrow@btinternet.com
01580 291566
07773 981903
Where to meet
Rose Cottage StudioBiddenden