Aron Belka of New Orleans Wins Grand Prize at the BOMBAY SAPPHIRE® Artisan Series

Congratulations to Aron Belka of New Orleans, LA -- winner of the prestigious BOMBAY SAPPHIRE® Artisan Series for 2015. His painting, titled "THE ALTRUIST," is an oil on canvas portrait of the artist's wife Lina Moses. Aron states that the inspiration behind the portrait is stemmed from Lina's position as an epidemiologist and disease ecologist during the Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone. "She was on the front lines of the Ebola response since the first days of the outbreak and spent nine months in...