Artists
Arthur Giardelli
Brendan Burns
Carol Hiles
Christine Kinsey
Chris Shurrock
Clive Hicks-Jenkins
Dennis Gardner
Dilys Jackson
Emrys Williams
Glyn Jones
Harvey Hood
John Selway
Martyn Jones
Peter Seabourne
Peter Spriggs
Robert Harding
Robert Alwyn Hughes
Sue Hunt
Sue Williams
Tom Piper
Antonia Spowers
Richard Renshaw
Ken Elias
Ken Elias
Ken Elias was once the subject of an essay -
'Et in Arcadia Ego', the title seems deeply ironic, what can the landscapes of Poussin have in common with a depiction of the intimacies of working-class life in a former mining settlement?. Yet Elias himself has referred to "the Arcadia of my filties childhood".
Elias' work is not simply nostalgia, it contains a slightly corrosive quality and more than a little chill. There is also the curious electricity of their metaphysical dimension, which conspires to suggest that they are not a depiction of real-life at all but life as it is uneasily dreamed. The works are dense and intense; but that is not all, a Magic Realist
sensibility is suggested. The works are complex, with deep psychological undertones they possess a freshness and directness and simplicity of design.