Pina Santoro-Ellwood

Open at:
Figtree Art Studio,
28 Manor Road, Folksworth
PE7 3SU
16

Weekend 2 10am-5pm
Weekend 3 10am-5pm

Pina Santoro-Ellwoods Website

Best known for my unique sculptures in a wide range of materials especially plaster, stone, wood and found objects. I am primarily a sculptor and then a painter and also a musician. My work is largely research based and heavily influenced by my Anglo – Sicilian background. I love to work with many different mediums because I am interested in the challenge of their manipulation.

As long as i can remember i have always created. Art is just a way of life for me, not something i do for a living or as a hobby, it is with me what ever I do, where ever i go. My work is all handmade either carved, modelled or constructed. Many of the constructed works were installations and therefore only temporary but they are however recorded photographically. The materials in which I choose to work in express the continuous development of my ideas. I begin with sketches, pointers or marks on paper that mathematically measure the space between object and me - the viewer. Then I go onto develop those ideas further by experimenting with materials until I find the most suited to the idea, taking into account the interaction of surface, mass and volume and finally space and its relations.

Born in Peterborough I now live in the small but beautiful village of Folksworth. Since graduating from Cambridge school Of Art with a first class degree in Sculpture/Fine Art – History & Practise I divide my time between family, working in my studio and teaching drawing from life. I love what I do because my work is a vehicle for what I want to say – be it truth, memory or fantasy. This is not always necessarily what people want to hear, however it is not my sole intension to visually please the viewer but to see the beauty in everything, even when that beauty has been unwittingly tarnished.