Eric Beltz, 2023

“Night Sky Moon Calendar”

limited edition of 5

image size 8” x 10”

Frame size": 13.5” x 15.5”

Each artwork comes matted and framed, with a certificate of authenticity.

Prints are created using archival pigment inks and printed on heavy weight Hahnemuhle etching paper.

$250. each.

Proceeds from sales support our youth art programs

Eric Beltz is a pencil artist living, working, and “teaching the long lost art of drawing” in Santa Barbara. He received his MFA at UCSB in 2004 where he now instructs and his work has been featured in copious art publications. Beltz has also had numerous solo shows in Los Angeles and New York yet one might think he would be showing alongside ancient religious artifacts due to the self-described devotional nature of his works. All starting with a mechanical pencil, Beltz seeks to “capture the imagination of strangers and fill their hearts with awe and wonder.” A popular question is whether he does any work in color and the answer would be no; he not only wants people to be content with black and white but rather thrilled by it. His process is meditative and inhabits the meticulous bordering on obsessive refinement of his linework. Mysterious, reverent, and alien, Beltz encapsulates a primordial yearning for home in his series “Garden of Radiance.” As the clouds drift across the night sky and the moon changes phase, the onlooker is simultaneously transformed by the darkness as Beltz’ precise outlines tether us from entering completely into the void.