About E.C. Knightingale
 

E.C. Knightingale is an artist, sculptor, woodworker, storyteller, and professional wooden boat builder based in Toronto.
 

His work moves between fine art, found-object sculpture, furniture, and boatbuilding.
 

Across each form, he is drawn to materials that carry memory: old wood, worn frames, industrial objects, discarded signs, antique tools, and fragments of domestic life. His pieces often begin with something overlooked, then become quiet stories about animals, childhood, spirit, loss, humor, and the strange beauty inside ordinary things.
 

As a boat builder, Ellis brings a deep respect for craft, structure, proportion, and handwork to everything he makes. His artistic practice is rooted in the same values: patience, repair, intuition, and the belief that objects can hold feeling.
 

Writing

Ellis is also writing the Nick Rossi series, beginning with The Order of the Ward, a supernatural-procedural thriller set in 1977 Massachusetts. Future novels include The Mirror Room and Dead at the Time. Like his visual work, the novels explore memory, hidden histories, moral consequence, and the uneasy mystery beneath ordinary life.
 

Animals

Ellis is vegan and a lover of animals. Many of the animals in his work are toy farm animals:

mass-produced, plastic, and made without souls. In his hands, that changes.

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He lives in Toronto with his wife Cher and daughter Teya, along with their three cats,

Lillie, Amalie, and Willow.