Michèle GRIFFITHS

Michèle Griffiths was born and educated in London. Initially steered towards an academic career, she took a joint Honours Degree in Modern and Medieval Languages at Girton College Cambridge, where she also acted and designed a theatre set.

Following a Postgraduate MA course in Modern Social and Cultural Studies in London and a year in Italy, she taught French and German in London Secondary Schools and attended Life Drawing evening classes. In her thirties, she survived a life-threatening operation, which directly led her to change course and pursue her dream of going to Art School. She was already doing a 2 year part time Diploma in Painting and Drawing at Putney College of Art ( awarded a Distinction.) She then went to Wimbledon School of Art for a full time BA Honours degree in Fine Art: Painting. Here, with eminent tutors including Prunella Clough, the path was set for her to develop her own unique voice as an abstract painter.

Since graduating in 1995, Michele has painted full time. She has exhibited widely in regular group exhibitions and Art Fairs in London and abroad. She had 5 solo shows at The Stour Gallery in the Cotswolds. Several works have been selected for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and the Discerning Eye, in the Mall Galleries, and in 2023 she was shortlisted for Wells Art Contemporary. In 2015 she completed a commission of eleven large paintings for P&O’s flagship cruise liner Britannia. In 1995 she was selected for the Florence Biennale and she was chosen for an international group show in Venice in 2022. In 2021, she had a major solo exhibition in Chichester Cathedral: “Darkness into Light.”

This year, her work has been exhibited in Fresh Art, London, the Summer Exhibition, (Atherton Green Art) and in “Abstract Aesthetic” at Gallery 57,  Arundel.

Michèle’s paintings have been shown annually at London Affordable Art Fairs by Nicholas Bowlby Fine Art. Works, including many commissions, are held in private collections throughout the UK and in France, Germany, USA, Canada, Australia and Japan, also in the P&O art collection and St George’s Hospital, Tooting, London.