Elin Jones

Elin is a Welsh artist with Finnish heritage and a recent graduate Fine Art Painting from Camberwell, UAL.

Her paintings express themes of childhood, memory and light often inspired by archived photographs of loved ones, capturing family generations and personal connections. These photographs inform her small-scale paintings embodying precious and sentimental moments, allowing her to reflect and recall these snippets in time. They show close relationships, friends and family, with images marked beyond the lens committing these memories to a painted form. She uses oil paint, varying between works on paper and works on board, using loose brushstrokes to depict a sense of a blurred memory, providing the viewer with comfort but also keeping an ambiguity as to where and who these figures are.

Many of her pieces are influenced by her Finnish relations, and many summers spent in Finland with her family. They move between figures in landscapes and interior spaces but unify in a focus on light and colour, reflecting her personal experiences and how she identifies with both her Welsh and Finnish roots.