Elena Kartintseva (UK, born 1973) trained at Moscow State Academy of Print.

Elena’s work is poetical and story telling - a fictional story told in colour, where some long reflected emotion is fixed in an imagined space, and the subject matter becomes a symbol of a psycho-condition. Technically experimental, Elena uses rollers, springs and prepared wood blocks imprinted on synthetic soft ground for the main mark making and tonalities, then uses deep etched incisions as a painting matrix for colour inks.

Rare birds and beautiful sadness best describes Elena’s work.

Her research takes us to The Boragaon landfill in Guwahati with the series ‘Hargila’, the local name for the endangered Marabou storks. The last survival habitat, of their small colony, has been turned into a giant disposal site. The storks, alongside local children, are working to reduce the dump. Elena, as her way of compassion, is vivifying this devastating wasteland by transforming it into a beautiful landscape of self-cleaning mud volcanos full of magnificent birds, in hopes of the wetland’s recovery.

Elena continues work on endangered birds, presenting Blakisnton’s Fish Owl in ‘Bubo’s Dream’.

‘Hold my mule’, is a representation of Highs and Falls waves of life. Inspired by Rudy Royston’s composition and of America’s south great culture.

Elena is an academically trained painter and illustrator graduated from Moscow State Academy of Print (1991-1997, MA in Fine Art Honour with distinction). She has exhibited widely since 1996 in number of shows, galleries and museums. Including NCCA and Brunel museum. Her paintings and prints are held in many private and some public collections around the world. She lives and works in London.