Stephanie Balih is an academic painter and singer-songwriter who works with acrylics, oils, and gold leaf on canvas. She combines figurative-expressive techniques with her signature blue, plays with wateriness, impasto, and unusual formats, and often incorporates lettering in real gold. In her works, she interweaves the sea, humanity, and nature to convey freshness, lightness, and inner strength, and to remind viewers of their purpose.