Biography & Artist’s Statement for Pina Manoni-Rennick

Biography

Pina Manoni-Rennick was born in Bassano Romano - a town north of Rome, Italy and moved to Ottawa, Canada in 1965.   Her interest in nature has nurtured her desire to recreate it with oil, watercolours and acrylics. Pina has enhanced her skills by taking the Visual Arts Program at Algonquin College, workshops at St. Lawrence College, The Ottawa School of Art, and through ongoing study with National and International artists such as Alex Power, Karla O’Connor, Skip Lawrence, Don Andrews and Frank Webb.

She paints each day at her studio “The Loft Art Studios” and on location. Since joining the Friday Morning Painters in 1997, each Friday she meets and paints plein air with the Ottawa-7 and on Wednesdays she can be found with fellow artists figure drawing.  She is a member of the Ottawa Art Association, Eastern and Central Ontario Art Association, Society of Canadian Artists and she is an associate of the Ottawa Watercolour Society. Pina has enjoyed displaying her work in three solo shows and several group showings in Ottawa and the surrounding region such as: the Ottawa Art Festival, The Rideau Valley Art Festival in Westport, Russell's Autumn in the Country, the Merrickville Art Festival and was part of the successful “Points of View”, “Ottawa Alleyways”, “Ottawater”, “Ottawa Alleyways-II”, “Hidden Gems” and “Dominion” shows at Ottawa's Cube Gallery.  She has her work at the Ottawa Art Gallery, Electric Street Gallery, Ottawa and Artprior Gallery, Arnprior unfortunately closed now.  You can also see some of her paintings on Saatchi, Gallery on-line. Pina has won several awards including the Blythe MacDonald Award for her watercolours.  She sold her work in Canada, US, England and Europe.

Statement

Painting for me is a pleasurable ongoing journey of discovery.  It’s a wonderful way to express myself.  Colours has always been the constant force behind my paintings.  It’s what I love the most.

Through my paintings I want viewers to see the colourful beauty that surrounds us and to feel the same sense of joy and excitement I feel when creating them.

My medium of choice is acrylic.  Acrylic allows me to work quickly putting down several layers of transparent colour and value, I also drip and splatter to achieve my original vision.