About The Artist:

Ric Elias is a native of Canada. Born in 1961, he was raised on a farm in the province of Saskatchewan about 30 miles outside of Saskatoon in a small hamlet called Hepburn.
       Ric moved to the city of Saskatoon with his family when he started grade school. He did well in school and until his high school years when his grades dropped dramatically and he dropped out of school. Ric’s father Clarence, was employed as a draftsman and photographer when Ric was young and made a deep and lasting impression on him in terms of building, drawing, and attention to detail. This is obvious in Ric’s work.
       After dropping out of high school in 1978 Ric bought and rode his first Harley Davidson (a 1956 XLCH Ironhead) around the country. Not seeming to have found any direction to direct his youthful energy he worked in a variety of different industries from working as a ranch hand on a farm, a roughneck on a oil-line, a undercover detective, a silk screen printer, a plant manger in a textile plant in central America, and you guessed it, a pizza delivery man.
       In 1988 Ric settled down and started a production company in Montreal, Quebec, Canada called Graffiti where he made his first mark on the fashion industry producing goods for Santana jeans and Hollywood jeans printing tattoo/biker style blue jeans and shirts. Discovering that his art and photography were marketable product’s he started
Photographing and drawing pictures of the motorcycles he had ridden all his life…. Harley’s!
       Today Ric Elias is one of the top artists in his field photographing and drawing remarkable images of the most nostalgic bike the world has ever known. His pieces reflect a certain style of crispness and starkness. Reflections in the chrome and the perfect geometry of the machines are indeed flawless.
       Ric presently owns Thunder Road Studios, a design and production company in Lawrenceville, Georgia and is the designer/producer of the Thunder Road Apparel clothing line. He also produces limited pieces of artwork and photography pertaining to the biker lifestyle.
       For the last seven years Ric has been a feature writer and photographer for Full Throttle Magazine, one of the largest monthly motorcycle magazines in the U.S.A. His feature articles show his close relationship to the biker community and the style in which he writes reflects his insight to this colorful culture