Selected Highlights
- Album artwork for Hawkwind (The Train of Lights) 2026
- Commissioned artist, St Luke’s Guiding Lights Plymouth 2026
- Winner, Newquay BID Door Mural Trail 2026
- Winner, People’s Choice Award, SAA Artists of the Year 2025
- Winner, People’s Choice Award, The British Art Prize 2024
Nightscape Artist Diane Griffiths
British contemporary artist who paints night-time scenes inspired by familiar rituals and everyday journeys. My work explores how natural and man-made light transforms ordinary landscapes after dark, revealing moments that are easy to overlook but stay with us.
Working primarily in acrylic on square canvases, I use colour, texture and atmosphere to create a sense of story. My work is less about specific locations and more about collective memory: places we recognise and moments we’ve all inhabited. My aim is to show how the beauty of everyday life, if seen through the right lens, is anything but ordinary.
"For many artists, the path to their craft comes through academia, galleries and mentorship, but The British Art Prize 2024 People's Choice winner Diane Griffiths' journey took a refreshingly unconventional route. This Midlands-born artist - once entrenched in the London media world - made a leap to the Cornish coast."
- Ramsha Vistro, Assistant Editor, Artists & Illustrators Magazine (2025)
Her work has been recognised through national art competitions, publications and exhibitions, and was recently selected as the album cover artwork for Hawkwind's Psychedelic Selections.
Awards & Recognition
- 2026 - Shortlisted, SAA Artists of the Year
- 2026 - Shortlisted, Football Art Prize
- 2026 - Shortlisted, Hisense x VIDAA Art Competition
- 2025 - The People's Choice Award Winner, SAA Artists of the Year
- 2024 - The People's Choice Award Winner, The British Art Prize
Publications & Features
- 2026 – Artist Feature, Astronomy Now
- 2026 – Artist Feature, DRIFT Journal
- 2026 – Album Cover Artwork, Hawkwind (Psychedelic Selection)
- 2026 – Artist Feature, Admiral News (Luxury Leisure)
- 2025 – Front Cover Feature, SAA Paint & Create
- 2025 – Artist Features, Artists & Illustrators (Winning Ways, We Present, The People's Choice Award)
- 2024 – Gallery Artists Feature, Leisure Painter
Editorial
- 2026 – Front Cover & Article, The Artist
- 2026 – Artist Tutorial, Artists & Illustrators
Media Broadcasts
- 2026 - Cornwall Rewind Radio 'The Big Breakfast'
- 2025 - BBC Cornwall Radio LIVE with Julie Skentelbery, Radio Newquay, Cornwall Rewind Radio
- 2024 - BBC Cornwall Radio BBC Upload with Daniel Pascoe, Radio Newquay, Cornwall Rewind Radio
Solo Exhibitions
- 2025-2026 - Tag Out of Office, Soho London
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2026/7 - Football Art Prize, National Football Museum Manchester
- 2026 - 7-21 Sept - Trerice House
- 2026 - Trenance Cottages, Newquay
- 2026 - Football Art Prize, Millennium Gallery Sheffield
- 2026 - Truro Cathedral
- 2025 - St Ives Society of Artists Spring and Christmas Open
- 2025 - Porthleven Harbour Art Prize
- 2025 - The Poly Members’ Exhibition and The Spring Open, Falmouth
- 2025 - The Blisland Institute Gallery Easter Exhibition
- 2025 - Summer Smalls Teyr Fine Art, Bude
- 2025 - Newquay Society of Artist Trenance Cottages, Newquay
- 2024 - The British Art Prize, OXO Tower, London
- 2023 - Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro
- 2021 - King House Gallery, Stratford-Upon-Avon
- 2021 - Samuel Johnson Birthplace Museum, Lichfield
Public Art & Community Projects
- 2027 – Invited artist, Cornwall Mind Art Auction
- 2026 - The Poly Secret Postcard Exhibition
- 2026 - Winner, Newquay BID Door Mural Trail
- 2026 - Artist, St Luke's Guiding Lights art trail and auction, Plymouth
- 2025 - Cornwall Hospice belly board 'Where Art Meets the Wave' auction
- 2025 - Anonymous Postcard Art Auction at St Day and Carharrack Primary School in Redruth
- 2024 - Cornwall Community Foundation sponsored baubles by Lillicrap Chilcott for the Cornwall Christmas Fair at The Eden Project
- 2022 - Cornwall Hospice milk churn 'Around Cornwall in 38 Churns', purchased by The Headland Hotel
- 2022 - Bude Sea Pool Art 'Spot the Artist' Postcard