Artist Bio

Elena Gualtierotti was born in 1961, in the Tuscan region of Italy. A natural affinity for figurative arts and an innate creative talent led her in 1993 to seek formal training in painting.

Under professional tutelage, Gualtierotti has developed an outstanding style and technical ability. She favors still life, through which she is able to express a refined sensitivity and a natural affinity to colors. Her compositions are simple and elegant and show dramatic light effects. They ndect a modern vision, rendered with antique techniques from the Flemish tradition; colors are thinly applied repeatedly on the same surface so achieve depth, contrast and brilliance. Her paintings, however, are softer than traditional Dutch paintings and have a mottled, almost transparent effect, as opposed to the heavy technique of the Dutch painters. The transparency and the reflective qualities achieved in the glass and in the silver objects in her paintings are extraordinary. An accomplished oil painter and watercolorist, Gualtierotti has full mastery also of the gouache technique.

In 1999, Gualtierotti won the First Prize at the Biennale of Livorno, Italy. Her paintings can be found in galleries and among private collectors in Spain, Switzerland, Italy and in the United States. Exhibitions of her work in these countries have met with acclaim.

Prizes and Exhibitions

1994 Competition for the Prize Manciano "Grosseto", Italy

1995 Circolo Culturale "Il Fitto", Cecina, Italy

1996 Collective Exhibition Teatro Rosignano Solvay, Rosignano, Italy

1996-2002 Artexpo, New York, San Francisco

1997 Art Americas, Miami Beach, Florida

1999 Biennale of Livorno, Italy - Winner of First Prize

2000-2001 Circolo Culturale "Il Fitto", Cecina, Italy