Michèle Griffiths’ paintings contain references to natural forms,
objects and places.
But the real subject matter is the way these are evoked
and resonate in the mind.
She has developed her own unique style to achieve this,
using many finely applied layers of oil paint on canvas.
Of recent work she says:
“ I like to think of these paintings as landscapes for the imagination.”
The art critic Nicholas Usherwood writes:
The paintings are...."A series of meditations on surface and depth,
illusion and reality, always intensely painterly
in their touch and mark," A keen sailor, her paintings
can be as quiet and contemplative as they can be elemental.
Each piece is built up with fine layers of oil paint
in different colours, made complex by being rubbed,
scratched and overpainted,
then pared down to the essential"