BIO

James Ballantyne has been painting for over 20 years. A self-taught Auckland artist whose main medium is oils, James loves to use vibrant colour and loose brush strokes to paint his subjects.

James trained in 3D animation early in his career, where he worked on TV shows, movies and finished working in the industry as an Animation teacher with Freelance Animation College, now called Animation College.

In 2013 James decided to pick up the paint brush fulltime and focus on portraits developing his impressionist style moving away from realism. In 2015, James held his first art exhibition on Maori people with Tamoko tattoos. The success of this exhibition saw James enter into The Adam Portrait Award in 2016 where his painting was picked to be exhibited on a touring roadshow around New Zealand.
EXHIBITIONS:
2019 - April - ARTerslie Exhibition
                    - Best Overall

2019 - April - ASB Easter Show
                         - Judges Chioce Award
2017 - October - Face Of A Daughter Charity Auction
                         - Worked with Tearfund and Nvader to raise money to fight
                           human trafficking by raising over $17,000, beating out target
                           of $10,00
                         - All six painting sold at Auction with an extra blank canvas to
                           auctioned off on the night
2017 - June - Church of the Good Shepard fundraising auction
                    - One painting donated
2016 - July - Matariki Exhibition at the Helensville Art Centre
                  - Peoples Choice Award
2016 - February - Adam Portrait Award Entry
                          - Top 59 out of 600 entries exhibition
                          - Year long travelling exhibition
2015 - August 28th - Judge at the Trust Art, Sculpture &
                                  Photography Exhibition
2015 - July 5 - July 31 - Moko Portrait Exhibition
                                      4 Paintings at the Helensville Art Centre
2015 - June 17 - July 4 - Moko Portrait Exhibition
                                       11 Paintings at the Lake House Art Centre

WORK HISTORY:
2009 - 2013 - I worked as a CGI Tutor at Animation College of NZ in
                      Auckland. I loved teaching and got a huge kick out of
                      students who grew to become amazing artists under my
                      guidance.
2006 - 2009 - I worked in Huhu studios for 3 years doing various jobs as
                      an Animator, Modeller, Texture artist, Rigger

 

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