Giuseppina Santoro-Ellwood BA Sculptor / Painter

My practice evolves as a creative response to the specific memories, objects, contexts and stories strongly influenced by my Anglo–Sicilian background.

This together with a need for creative release determines where the work leads. Life-classes are vital part of my practice and are currently held at my studio.

Upcoming exhibition -
Salon 11 Louvre - Paris- 8 - 11 December 2011
Read article from Peterborough Evening Telegraph

Click here to read Pina's article in Art and Soul Magazine.

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 back round. 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.