Artist Profile - Claire Griffiths
Biography
Claire was born in North Wales, and studied at the Royal Forest of Dean College. In 1999 she was awarded a Fine Art degree in printmaking by the University of Wales, Cardiff. She has used many mediums in her work but generally draws original pieces in pastel, then creates prints using intaglio methods such as etching and aquatint on copper, lithography on stone, and dry point. Claire’s work is sensitive and elegiac in nature, showing her personal response to the environment from which she draws her work; she finds revelation in the seemingly ordinary, such as domestic scenes, landscape and portraiture. The work also reflects the nature and the history of the post –industrial Welsh Valleys in which she lives and works. She has exhibited widely in the west of the country and her work can regularly be seen in Cardiff and occasionally in London.