Irene Belknap has been an integral member of the Mill Valley arts community for over fifty years. A gifted painter whose lush, surreal canvases of women, men and animals in motion are both lucid and dreamlike, Irene’s work has a presence that embraces and transports the viewer. Like hieroglyphs, the paintings are accompanied by words and written characters. The titles of her series, such as “String Theory,” and “Dressed in Words” are plays on words and explorations of themes. She regularly shows at O’Hanlon Center for the Arts and most recently showed fourteen of her giclée prints at the Redwoods.
