Ken Elliott's early involvement with fine art, following his art studies at the University of Houston in the late 1960's, encompassed such related activities as framing, restoration, gallery directorship. For more then 20 years, however, it has been his work in oils, pastels and collage which has been the subject of more than 40 major exhibitions nationally and found its way into hundreds of private and corporate collections, two recent books and, in the form of giclee prints, the guest rooms of Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Denver.

The landscape is this artist's limitless source of inspiration. "I am compelled to work from the trees, skies, lakes and streams in their endless variations." he states. "I don't try to recreate nature (even Monet said he never got it right) or attempt storytelling." It is almost as if the forms and shapes of the natural world act as an armature upon which his beautifully intricate tapestries of color can display, arrange and drape themselves.