Hazel Griffiths

I am originally from the UK and have lived in the states for the last five years. I currently live in upstate new york after moving up from west palm beach florida. I grew up in the Shropshire and Herefordshire areas, near the welsh border in peaceful farming countryside in the shadow of the black mountains. But I also call the picturesque Mein valley in the Frankurt area, Germany, home. I am half german on my mother's side and was brought up bilingual.
I have also travelled a lot, mostly through europe, incuding Iceland and Praugue but also Mexico and Colombia and of course the states. I love the raw exitment of finding myself alone and lost in a foreign place I have never been before, in a lands and cultures alien to me.

I attended a Rudolf Steiner school in Hereford untill the age of sixteen befor going to the Hereford college of art & design to do a foundation course in art & design. Here I specialized in fashion and textiles. I then went on to study fashion at Newport university in Wales.
Whilst living in Florida I took courses in encaustic wax art and oil & acrylic painting, including techniques in photo-realism. And also a course in landscape painting at muson williams institute in Utica NY.