santino dela is a Canadian artist and writer whose work explores the emotional and spiritual dimensions of human experience. Working across painting, collage, and mixed media, he creates layered, abstract works that resist easy interpretation and reward sustained attention. Rather than depicting the world, his paintings become places of encounter—spaces where memory, presence, absence, and the sacred within ordinary life may be experienced rather than explained. His practice is rooted in the conviction that careful attention is an access to the divine, and itself a creative and devotional act.

Born in Vancouver, British Columbia (1990), he now lives and works on a farm in the Fraser Valley with his family.