About the artist
Elena San Pietrini (Elena Pietrini Sánchez) is a live wedding painter, as well, she creates paintings at corporative events, anniversaries, birthdays and other special occasions.
She has exhibited her work at BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, in Utrecht, as well as in the museum Het Mondriaanhuis, in Amersfoort, and in the RRMND Galerie in Limburg.
Most of her paintings belong to private collectors in Italy, México, the United States of America, Spain and Sweden.
She is best known for her figurative images depicting Madonna and Child paintings, following traditional iconography and merging with archetypical symbols found in different cultures.
Elena San Pietrini path into art was inspired by her grandfather Jorge Sánchez Hernández (1926-2016), a renown Mexican painter that illustrated one of the most beautiful Guadalupe Gospels known as Nican Mopohua. He illustrated the life of one of the first and most important feminists in Mexico in the seventeenth century, the nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.
His artworks inspired Elena's Madonna and Child series of paintings and the exploration of the feminine figure as an artistic archetype. Her grandfather introduced her to the art of some of his contemporary artists in Mexico such as Frida Kahlo and the surrealists Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo, both refugees from Europe who found sanctuary in Mexico. Through the impulse of her grandfather Elena explored a painting vocabulary and style, different than his, but immersed in love for Mexico.
Elena was born in México City. She lives and works in The Netherlands., speaks fluent English, Spanish and basic Netherlands.
Awards & Recognitions
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2016 - 2017
Fine Arts Master Program. Hogeschool voor de Kunsten. Utrecht, The Netherlands.
2006 - 2010
Bachelor in Art History. Universidad Iberoamericana. Mexico City, Mexico.
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2025
Finalist at international painting contest: “Painting of the Year”. RRMND Galerie, Limburg, The Netherlands.
2024
First Prize at international painting contest: “Earthly Paradise”. Mondrian Huis, Amersfoort. The Netherlands.
2013
Honorific Mention at “53th National Watercolour Amateur Competition”.
National Watercolour Museum Guati Rojo. Mexico City, Mexico.2005
First Prize at national youth painting contest “Don Quijote de la Mancha”.
Royal Club Spain. Mexico City, Mexico. -
2025
“Painting of the Year”. Roermond Gallery. RMND Galerie, Limburg, The Netherlands. From January to March, 2025.
2024
“Earthly Paradise”. Het Mondriaanhuis.
Amersfoort, The Netherlands. From March to June, 2024.2017
“Abiotic Factors”(curated by Marion von Osten). Bak. Utrecht, The Netherlands. From 24 June to 9 July, 2017.
2014
Affordable Art Fair. Mexico City, Mexico. October, 2014.
2014
“Woman is Art”. Teachers Center, Secretary of Public Education.
Mexico City, Mexico. From 18 March to 12 April, 2014.2013
“Elementos”. Centro Cultural El Refugio. Tlaquepaque, Guadalajara.
From 29 Noviembre to 15 December, 2013.2013
“About Fanny Rabel”. Israelite Sports Center.
Mexico City, México. From 11 November to 1 December, 2013.2013
“53th National Watercolour Amateur Competition”.
National Watercolour Museum Guati Rojo.
Mexico City, Mexico. From 14 to 28 of July, 2013.2013
“Annual Exhibition of
Sacred Art”.
Parish of San José María Escrivá de Balaguer.
Mexico City, Mexico. From May 24 to June 2, 2013.2005
“Don Quijote de la Mancha”.
Royal Club Spain. Mexico City, Mexico. -
2025
Roermond Gallery
Limburg, The Netherlands
Painting of the Year.
Online resource: https://paintingoftheyear.com/40-finalists
2024
Het Mondriaanhuis
Amersfoort, The Netherlands
Earthly Paradise.
Online resource: https://amersfoort.nieuws.nl/nieuws/64071/winnaars-
schilderwedstrijd-mondriaanhuis/2017
BAK
Utrecht, The NetherlandsAbiotic Factors.
Online resource: https://www.bakonline.org/en/making+public/program/
abiotic+factors/2013
Centro Cultural El Refugio
Guadalajara, MéxicoElementos.
Online resource: https://www.informador.mx/Cultura/Tlaquepaque-exhibira-el-
trabajo-de-67-pintoras-mexicanas-20131125-0143.html2013
Israelite Sports Center
Mexico City, México.
About Fanny Rabel.
Online resource. Page 14 of 28. https://www.slideshare.net/danielocampo1441/
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