"
My paintings are my world, my fascination for people, plants, animals
and colour. They are how I perceive things with all their energy.''
Belinda Eaton – 2005.
Born
in Mombasa, school in Franco’s Spain, college in London, early
work in New York, lost in rural France, found in Pakistan, now living
and working in Barcelona. Belinda’s nomadic existence has allowed
her to always be perceiving life around her with the fresh enthusiastic
eyes of the newcomer seeing things for the first time, resulting in
the unique perspective of what is “Belinda’s world”.
A world of colour, vivid characters, swirling spaces, uncontained energy
that can’t be trapped by the limits of the canvas, images constantly
on the move, living life, dancing, drinking, and eating.
Within the canvas there are no boundaries of subject, perspective or
reality, just the borrowings from all that she has been exposed to.
The chameleon she watched change colour and the washed up locust she
ate in Africa, the wailing witches who counted their age in potatoes
in a small Moorish village in Andalucia, the art education at St Martins
school of Art in London, the crazy nightlife of the club years in New
York and graffiti and rap,growing vegetables according to the moon and
contemplating with French farmers, being a western woman in an eastern
world and truly learning to see with a fresh eye and mind in Karachi
.Now back to early influences in Spain but within the organic structure
of the Catalans, and none of the abandoned wildness of the people of
the south.
Belinda
Eaton exhibited her portrait of Cilla Black in the Star Portraits with
Rolf Harris Exhibition at the County Hall Gallery, London from May 27th-July
3rd 2005. Her paintings and an interview were shown on ''Star Portraits
with Rolf Harris'', on BBC One on June 5th 2005. The Star Portraits
Exhibition continued to the New Walk Museum and Gallery, Leicester,
the Naughton Gallery, Queens University, Belfast and the Shipley Art
Gallery, Gateshead.
In
December 2005 she exhibited at the Biennale Internazionale dell'Arte
Contemporanea, Firenze (Florence Biennale).
Belinda
Eaton exhibited her portraits at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters
Exhibition at the Mall Galleries, London from April 27th - May 14th
2006. The exhibition will continue to the Hatton Gallery, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
from June 23rd - August 19th 2006. Her paintings and an interview were
shown on ''Star Portraits with Rolf Harris'', on ABCTV, Australia on
August 15th 2006. On September 15th 2006, Belinda will display her paintings
in a group show at the Art Affair Gallery, Regensburg, Germany.
Belinda will be exhibiting her paintings
at the Art Affair Gallery in Cannes, France, from December 15th 2006
onwards.