About this Work
About the Artist
Italian, American
b. 1932 ItalyElena Brittain is a whimsical and prolific contemporary artist whose abstract series range from brightly colored surfaces to bold textured collages to unstructured images layered in muted tones. Brittain was born in Italy. The daughter of an Italian Army colonel from Florence, she grew up in cities all over Italy but considers herself a Fiorentina. She immigrated to San Francisco as a teenager and studied drawing and painting at San Francisco City College. For more than 20 years, the Marina and Pacific Heights districts were Elena’s canvases. As a designer/developer, she renovated dozens of homes into livable works of art. Since 1991, Elena has participated in numerous group shows and juried competitions including the Marin County Art Fair where she received honorable mentions in 1992 and 1998. She also took part in a painting workshop that culminated in an exhibition in France at the Abbey of Caunes-Minervois. Since 2005, Elena has been affiliated with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists’ Gallery and currently paints in her San Francisco studio.
b. 1932 ItalyElena Brittain is a whimsical and prolific contemporary artist whose abstract series range from brightly colored surfaces to bold textured collages to unstructured images layered in muted tones. Brittain was born in Italy. The daughter of an Italian Army colonel from Florence, she grew up in cities all over Italy but considers herself a Fiorentina. She immigrated to San Francisco as a teenager and studied drawing and painting at San Francisco City College. For more than 20 years, the Marina and Pacific Heights districts were Elena’s canvases. As a designer/developer, she renovated dozens of homes into livable works of art. Since 1991, Elena has participated in numerous group shows and juried competitions including the Marin County Art Fair where she received honorable mentions in 1992 and 1998. She also took part in a painting workshop that culminated in an exhibition in France at the Abbey of Caunes-Minervois. Since 2005, Elena has been affiliated with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists’ Gallery and currently paints in her San Francisco studio.
