Frank Balaam

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“I paint from a viewpoint which immerses the viewer in an impenetrable tangle of trees with no earth, no distance, no forest creatures and no visible path in or out. The solitary viewer is thus part of the timeless forest, rooted and growing inexorably. By adopting a “reverse painting” technique, the light in my forests is imbued with substance instead of merely being a backdrop, or solely an illuminator of the subject.

-- Frank Balaam

For the past 50 years, Frank Balaam has painted and traveled extensively including Europe, Africa, the Cook Islands, and the United States where he now resides in a small mountain town in Eastern Arizona. His Combination of classical training in the arts accompanied by a lifetime of experience painting portraits, murals, landscapes, figurative works culminate in his newest creative forests which radiate with the energy of passion and life.