Karen Griffiths

British painter Karen Griffiths lives in the French Alps, with her studio overlooking the alpine town of Morzine. Since leaving university, Brighton became home for 9 years painting in her beachfront studio, until moving to France 20 years ago.
As soon as she was old enough, she took to the road, heading for Asia, with road trips in Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, and also India, Morocco and China. She brought back sketches, faces in notebooks, a few words and phrases, sometimes scraps of fabric and texts in a foreign language, as well as photographs… intimate moments to inspire her creations.
Karen Griffiths honed her artistic technique at the University of Central Lancashire. She filled sketchbooks and shared a studio on the beach in Brighton with other artists. She then exhibited at London galleries and art fairs.
Whether faces or landscapes,
her works always suggest an emotion or an
intimate experience. “Sometimes, especially
on the smaller canvases, I glue patterned paper
in the background before I start painting. It’s so different without a blank canvas, and I leave a glimpse of the pattern. My smaller canvases are like a page in a sketchbook, and that’s the heart of my paintings”. Each work integrates words from poems, thoug...

BA (Hons) Illustration - First Class Honours

Expo - Maison Roucas - Provence - July 6th 2024
Stephanie Hoppen Gallery -Mixed 2009 -17 Walton Street, London
Rowley Gallery– Mixed 2009 -115 Kensington Church Street, London
Belgrave Gallery– Mixed 2009 -22 FORE STREET – ST. IVES – CORNWALL
Sarah Wiseman gallery – Summer Show -July 2009 – South Parade, Summertown, Oxford
Cherry Lane Fine Arts– Killincarrig, Delgany, Ireland – mixed show 2009
Gallerina – Mixed show – Darlington 2009

The Discerning Eye Drawing Bursary-Nov 2009,Mall Galleries, London

ART IRELAND –RDS, Ballsbridge, Dublin – 14th – 16th Nov 2008
Affordable Art Fair– Battersea Park, London -Oct 2002/03/04/06/07/08
2 Person show-Tanglin Club/Hidden Host- Singapore May-June 08
The Royal College of Art (Chase) – Kensington Gore, London
Nov 2002/03/04/05/06/07 /08
Europ’ART – Geneva art fair Palexpo, Geneva – 30th Apr – 4th May
La Galerie -Morzine, France – Jan-May 2006
Brighton Festival -Studio 106,Brighton – May 2005
Glasgow Art Fair -Georges Sq – Apr 2005
Brighton Art Fair -Corn Exchange,Brighton – Nov 2004/05/06/07/09
Solo Show – Quodart Gallery -Brighton – Oct 2004
Chelsea Art Fair -Kings Rd, Chelsea, London – Apr 2004
Baillie Gallery – 1a Copper Row,Tower Bridge Piazza, London – Mar,Aug,Nov 04/Oct 05
Century Galle...