Belinda Herford
Abstract Impressionist
Belinda began painting in 2000 with no formal training, just a desire to create and communicate through her art. She studied technical oil painting manuals to understand the fundamentals and applications of paint, tools of the trade, the various media and effects created with their specific use.
Over the years she has developed her own unique techniques through experimentation and exploration. A delicate burnishing of multiple layers of dark on light akin to sfumato, along with a special effect created by splashing turps onto the wet surface, allowing it to dry, then burnishing back to expose the layers beneath creating an intriguing depth.
Painting exclusively in oils on the highest quality imported Belgian linen, she prefers working on larger stretchers finding them to be particularly impactful in expansive open spaces which enhance and broaden the depth of field for the viewer.
Darkest Before Dawn, Oil on belgian linen, 130 x 130cm, Belinda Herford.
Working professionally initially out of Sydney but predominantly Noosa Heads Queensland for 20 years painting stories for exhibitions and additional stock pieces.
Belinda is currently happily living and painting in a tranquil little cottage and studio on acreage in the Adelaide Hills overlooking vast, green tree-filled rolling hills where abundant native and farm animals roam free.
The current 2025 body of eight paintings collectively titled - L I G H T F O R C E - is a noble tribute to the inner strength of every person, especially those who have experienced a catastrophe of magnitude in their life, and the light within every one of us that shines on as something truly divine.