Selected Highlights

  • Winner, DRIFT CREATE Award 2026
  • Winner, GreatArt UK 25th Birthday Competition 2026
  • Album artwork for Hawkwind (The Train of Lights) 2026
  • Commissioned artist, St Luke’s Guiding Lights Plymouth 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)

Awards & Recognition

  • 2026 - Winner of the DRIFT CREATE Award
  • 2026 - Finalist, Broadway Arts Festival Art Competition
  • 2026 - Winner, GreatArt UK 25th Birthday Competition
  • 2026 - Shortlisted, SAA Artists of the Year
  • 2026 - Shortlisted, Football Art Prize
  • 2026 - Shortlisted, Hisense x VIDAA Art Competition
  • 2025 – Winner, People’s Choice Award, SAA Artists of the Year
  • 2024 – Winner, People’s Choice Award, The British Art Prize

Publications & Features

  • 2026 – Art World: Movers and Shakers Feature, Cornwall Life
  • 2026 – Front Cover, The Artist Magazine
  • 2026 – Artist Feature, Astronomy Now
  • 2026 – Artist Feature, DRIFT Journal
  • 2026 – Album Cover Artwork, Hawkwind (Psychedelic Selection)
  • 2025 – Front Cover Feature, Paint & Create The SAA (The People's Choice Award)
  • 2025 – Artist Features, Artists & Illustrators (Winning Ways, We Present, The People's Choice Award)
  • 2024 – Gallery Artists Feature, Leisure Painter

Editorial Work

  • 2026 – Artist Tutorial, SAA Magazine – Painting Artificial Light at Night
  • 2026 – Feature Article, Leisure Painter & The Artist Magazine – The Colour of Night
  • 2026 – Feature Article, The Artist Magazine – Telling Stories Through Titles
  • 2026 – Artist Tutorial, Artists & Illustrators Magazine– Charing Cross in Light
  • 2026 – Studio Video Tutorial, Bristle – Acrylic Fireworks at Night
  • 2026 – Studio Video Tutorial, Painters Online – Atmospheric Night Skies
  • 2026 – Online Article, Painters Online – Square Roots: Why I Paint in a Square Format
  • 2026 – Online Article, Painters Online – Clicks or Bricks? Selling Art Online and in Person
  • 2026 – Online Article, Painters Online – How do I know when I have finished my painting?

Solo Exhibitions

  • 2025-2026 - Tag Out of Office, Soho London

Selected Group Exhibitions

  • 2026/7 - Football Art Prize, National Football Museum Manchester
  • 2026 - RNLI Art Show, Devon

  • 2026 - SAA Artists of the Year Exhibition, Cass Arts Kingston, London
  • 2026 - Broadway Arts Festival Art, Bretforton, Worcestershire
  • 2026 - National Trust Property Trerice House, Newquay
  • 2026 - Football Art Prize, Millennium Gallery Sheffield
  • 2026 - Truro Cathedral
  • 2025 - St Ives Society of Artists Open
  • 2025 - Porthleven Harbour Art Prize 
  • 2025 - The Poly Members’ Exhibition and The Spring Open, Falmouth
  • 2024 - The British Art Prize, OXO Tower, London
  • 2023 - Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro

Selected Public Art & Projects

  • 2026 – Winner, Newquay BID Door Mural Trail
  • 2026 – Artist, St Luke's Guiding Lights art trail and auction, Plymouth
  • 2024 – Cornwall Christmas Fair Art Project, Eden Project
  • 2022 – Cornwall Hospice milk churn 'Around Cornwall in 38 Churns', purchased by The Headland Hotel