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"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 May 2025

Cornish Landscape Artist Diane Griffiths

I am a British contemporary artist who paints night-time scenes inspired by familiar rituals and everyday journeys. My work explores how natural and man-made light can transform 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 paintings are less about specific locations and more about collective experience; places we recognise, routes we repeat, and moments many of us have inhabited.

Recent national recognition, including two People’s Choice Awards and competition shortlisting, has reinforced my belief that work rooted in everyday experience can resonate widely.

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 Jan - Admiral News Luxury Leisure Magazine Feature
  • 2025 Dec - SAA (Supporting All Artists) Paint & Create - Front Cover feature
  • 2025 Aug - Artists and Illustrators - Winning Ways feature
  • 2025 May - Artists and Illustrators - We Present feature
  • 2025 Feb - Artists and Illustrators - The People's Choice Award 6-page feature
  • 2024 Dec - Leisure Painter - Gallery Artists feature

Media Broadcasts

  • 2025 Jul & Nov - BBC Cornwall Radio LIVE with Julie Skentelbery
  • 2025 Nov - Radio Newquay
  • 2025 Aug - Cornwall Rewind Radio, The Big Cornish Breakfast
  • 2024 Nov & Dec - BBC Cornwall Radio BBC Upload
  • 2024 Dec - Radio Newquay, Cornwall Rewind Radio LIVE, The Big Cornish Breakfast

Solo Exhibitions

  • 2025 Tag Out of Office, Soho London

Selected Group Exhibitions

  • 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
  • 2025 - St Ives Society of Artists Spring Open

  • 2024 - The British Art Prize, OXO Tower, London
  • 2024 - Newquay Society of Artists Trenance Cottages, Newquay
  • 2024 - St Ives Society of Artists Spring Open
  • 2023 - Royal Cornwall Museum 'Spirit of Cornwall' Open Exhibition.
  • 2023 - Porthleven Harbour Art Prize
  • 2022 - Newquay Society of Artists Padstow Memorial Hall & Trenance Cottages, Newquay
  • 2021 - 'Seasons' King House Gallery, Stratford-Upon-Avon
  • 2021 - Samuel Johnson Birthplace Museum, Lichfield
  • 2021 - Newquay Society of Artists Padstow Memorial Hall & Trenance Cottages, Newquay

Community

  • 2019 to Current - Publicity Officer Newquay Society of Artists
  • 2026 - 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' auction, purchased by The Headland Hotel
  • 2022 - Bude Sea Pool Art 'Spot the Artist' Postcard