Pina Santoro-Ellwood

SCULPTOR, PAINTER, MUSICIAN

Open at:
Figtree Art Studio


Weekend 1 10am-4pm
Weekend 2 10am-4pm
Weekend 3 10am-4pm

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 work with many different mediums as I am interested in the challenge of their manipulation.
As long as I can remember I have always ‘created’. Art is life for me. It is with me in what ever I do and where ever I go. Many of my summers from infancy were spent in Sicily where I absorbed the exotic scenery and hot colourful atmosphere which now feeds much of my work. Southwold is a place I regularly visit too.
Many of my constructed works were installations and therefore only temporary but they are however recorded photographically. My work is all handmade either carved, modelled or constructed in my Folksworth studio although many of my 2D work was created elsewhere* 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. 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 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, commissions, workshops and Teaching drawing from life - (for details contact on above number). I love what I do because my work is a vehicle for what I want to say – be it truth, memory or fantasy.
*Work created on travels from Southwold to Sicily.