Elena Ballock _________________________________________________Biography

Elena Ballock is a California artist living in the San Francisco Bay Area. After graduating from Cal State Hayward, she became interested in visual art, admiring and collecting works by various artists. She especially appreciated the emotional responses and ideas that can be transferred from the artist to the viewer.

 

Her style ranges from impressionistic and traditional to a more contemporary feel. Having mastered the complex skills required for oil painting, her work is natural, intuitive, free form and flowing with color and texture. She works in both water color and oil, but prefers oil.  Elena particularly enjoys the textures and colors that can be achieved with oil, allowing the viewer to experience depth and dimension in addition to color and composition.

 

Her primary interest lies in how color and light affects the world around us.  She uses the vehicles of landscapes, urban settings and seascapes to explore these effects. She believes that art is a form of communication that should delight the eye and speak to the soul. It gives the artist a chance to freeze an idea and send it on to others for their interpretation. It is her desire that viewers of her work come away with a new sense of emotion and intrigue. “Art is as simple as a visual image striking the eye, but it becomes more when it touches the soul.  In that moment it becomes a connection between people.”

 

Elena’s work has been exhibited in various settings including museums and is available for purchase.

Contact Elena at elenaballock@comcast.net

 

Urban Settings Still Lifes