Michèle Griffiths

The Downs from East Head Far and Wide Sunset III with Pale Green Saronic Sunset II one Day Sunset V with Silver Sea Gentle Breeze Gently Rocking Swell Safe Mooring Between Two States Night Sailing Following Wind In the Mists of Time Deep Blue Sea Series Still Waters Passing Thought Blue Times Two Blue Shell Family Changing Weather Sundown near Hydra Dusk in the Aegean Nenuphare Anemones Begotten Two Vessels Still Life with Jug celebration one and one Fresh Flower, white on grey Falling Petal Flower in Deep Blue Michèle Griffiths 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" 070621. goanfle