Ken
Elias has studied and worked in various parts of his native South
Wales. However one place is most special to him because he has spent
the whole of his life there. This is the former mining village of
Glynneath situated in the broad upper reaches of the verdant Neath
valley.
For thirteen years this place has featured ever more prominently in
immaculately executed acrylic paintings. It does not appear in a literal
way but images which are fusions or juxtapositions of the physical
environment with the mental one of memory and imagination.
Ceri Thomas Author and Art Historian |