Biography
Pat Griffin is a British contemporary printmaker who came to fine art as a mature student. After many years of practising art on a recreational level — creative embroidery, life drawing, and various painting and drawing workshops — she took a Fine Art degree as a mature student at the University of Hertfordshire and went on to complete a postgraduate course in printmaking at West Herts College, which became the technical foundation of her studio practice. Birth and death dates have not been published, and her professional biography is built around the post-university development of the work rather than a single early-career narrative.
Since 2018 she has been based in West Sussex on the south coast of England, where she works from a converted garage studio. Her practice is multi-medium and combinatorial: linocuts, collagraphs, etchings, carborundum prints, monoprints, and combinations of these, alongside paintings developed from the same source material. Subject matter is consistently drawn from the natural world, with particular attention to surface texture and colour.
Her exhibition record is concentrated in the London and southeast English print circuit. She has shown at the Bankside Gallery, the Waterloo Gallery, and the Menier Gallery in London, and internationally at Marcilhac-sur-Célé in the Lot region of France, and she has exhibited with the Printmakers Council and with the National Society of Painters, Sculptors and Printmakers. She has also engaged with the dedicated mokuhanga circuit: she took part in the juried exhibition of the 2024 International Mokuhanga Conference in Echizen, Fukui Prefecture, where she was listed as a participating artist from Ireland. The short biographies that circulate in commercial print databases reflect the genuinely limited scholarly footprint of the work to date.
Key Facts
- Nationality
- 🇮🇪Ireland
- Movement
- Contemporary Mokuhanga
- Subjects
- Craftspeople
- Works Indexed
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Frequently Asked Questions
Pat Griffin is a British contemporary printmaker who came to fine art as a mature student. After many years of practising art on a recreational level — creative embroidery, life drawing, and various painting and drawing workshops — she took a Fine Art degree as a mature student at the University of Hertfordshire and went on to complete a postgraduate course in printmaking at West Herts College, which became the technical foundation of her studio practice. Birth and death dates have not been published, and her professional biography is built around the post-university development of the work rather than a single early-career narrative.
Pat Griffin's work was shaped by the Contemporary Mokuhanga tradition in Japanese woodblock printmaking. Contemporary Mokuhanga: Contemporary mokuhanga (literally "wood-block print") encompasses artists working from approximately 1970 to the present who continue or reinvent traditional Japanese woodblock printing techniques.
Pat Griffin's prints frequently feature craftspeople.
