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achieved through deep orange highlights on the flowers and trees and the intense red chairs. This emotionally charged rendition is at odds with the bucolic imagery she choose to paint. The result is that the viewer is confronted with a powerful twodimensional painting in which color is the primary focus. Rather than specific images, the painting communicates the complexity, depth, and rewards of the spiritual journey.
Paintings since her recent move to the Culpepper area exhibit a modulation of energy and the calmer colors found in the Virginia landscape, but still retain a powerful sense of her spiritual side. The more subdued pallet allows the occasional use of vivid color to truly sparkle, communicate depth and provide a clear focus.
The large painting Blue Ridge Mountains is a majestic culmination of Baliles’ artistic journey. Her energetic brushwork is tempered by a soft sky of loose watercolor washes and the strong color mass of an old farmhouse set against the Blue Ridge Mountains. She uses an interesting version of ariel perspective to lend the painting a feeling of depth and complexity. The foreground fields and fence row are rendered with her renowned vivid colors and patterned shapes but as the painting recedes, the colors become softer and the washes looser and more fluid. The result is a compelling and realistic abstraction of a favorite
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