Baljit Balrow

Baljit Balrow is a Kent based painter whose work work explores the topics of her cultural identity and diaspora. This subject, initially central to her degree in visual arts, continually evolves and appears through her current work some 20 years on.

About her work she says “I am looking at what we can store away in our mind at various depths, through discomfort, fear, loss of memory, trauma or just some blurred vision in a busy world. Nostalgia surfaces a lot through my interest in my cultural identity.

Through spontaneous play I bring to the surface an honest visual language to translate complex feelings to an audience. Colours and markings evoke feelings more than words for me. I have never felt sufficiently articulate through words but I do through colour.”

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