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)
Awards
- 2026 Shortlisted, Hisense x VIDAA Art Competition (Final 20)
- 2025 The People's Choice Award Winner, SAA Artists of the Year
- 2024 The People's Choice Award Winner, The British Art Prize
- 2023 Commended in Porthleven Harbour Art Prize
- 2021 Top 25 Finalists of 'Seasons' Art Competition
- 2021 Overall Winner of L2F Art Competition
Publications
- 2026 - 8-page feature, DRIFT Journal
- 2026 - The Train of Lights selected as album artwork for the band Hawkwind
- 2026 - Admiral News Luxury Leisure Magazine feature
- 2025 - SAA (Supporting All Artists) Paint & Create - Front Cover feature
- 2025 - Artists and Illustrators - Winning Ways, We Present and The People's Choice Award features
- 2024 - Leisure Painter - Gallery Artists feature
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 Tag Out of Office, Soho London
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2026 - 7-21 Sept - Trerice House
- 2026 - 11-19 July - Trenance Cottages
- 2026 - 11-24 May - 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
- 2026 - 21-25 July - The Poly Secret Postcard Exhibition
- 2019 to Current - Publicity Officer Newquay Society of Artists
- 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