Elena Cutrona

Elena was born in Sicily and since the second half of the 1980s she devoted herself to studying various painting techniques, attending Nino Mustica’s atelier in Catania for some time. In those years Elena, who was devoted to the use and experimentation of the different pictorial procedures, created some works that demonstrate an artistic tendency prone to both abstract and informal. Since the mid-1990s, Elena has therefore followed courses in decorative painting in some of the most famous European schools of decorative art, namely the Accademia del Superfluo in Rome and the I.P.E.D.E.C. (Institut Supérieur de Peinture Decorative) in Paris. Once back in Catania Elena worked as a decorator, creating ornamental motifs of various types, such as faux marble and trompe l’oeil, on walls, furniture and panels. Later, from this type of artistic-decorative application, Elena came to a more in-depth study of the landscape by painting a series of oil paintings representing the ports of the cities of Sicily. Spacing with other techniques, she created watercolor and pastels of the views of her land where the sea is an essential presence.