Pat Griffin

Pat Griffin is a British contemporary printmaker who came to fine art as a mature student, completed a postgraduate course in printmaking at West Herts College, and has built her studio practice around relief and intaglio techniques — primarily linocut, collagraph, etching, and carborundum — and around the inclusion of mokuhanga in the contemporary multi-media print idiom. Birth and death dates have not been published, and her professional biography on her own studio website is built around the post-university development of the work rather than around a single early-career narrative. She studied creative embroidery, life drawing, and various painting and drawing workshops before entering the Fine Art degree programme at the University of Hertfordshire as a mature student, and after graduation she undertook the postgraduate printmaking course at West Herts College that has been the technical foundation of the studio practice. She has been based in West Sussex on the south coast of England since 2018, where she works from a converted garage studio. The standing technical register of 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, and a recent series of paintings has been developed from early-morning coastal photography made during the COVID-19 lockdowns. Her exhibition record is concentrated in the London and southeast English print circuit. She has shown at the Bankside Gallery (the principal exhibition venue of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers and the Royal Watercolour Society on London's South Bank), the Waterloo Gallery in London, and the Menier Gallery in Southwark; she has shown internationally at Marcilhac-sur-Célé in the Lot region of France; and she has been a regular exhibitor with the Printmakers Council, the British membership organization for fine-art printmakers, and with the National Society of Painters, Sculptors and Printmakers. Within the dedicated mokuhanga circuit she has participated in the juried exhibition associated with the 2024 International Mokuhanga Conference in Echizen, Fukui Prefecture, where she was listed as a participating artist from Ireland — a country attribution that may reflect Irish heritage or an editorial inconsistency in the IMC database rather than a change of residence from the West Sussex base recorded on her studio website. Her work has been collected principally through gallery sales and the Printmakers Council membership programme, and the public-collection holdings recorded for her are not yet substantial. The current short bio in commercial print databases reflects the genuinely limited scholarly footprint of the work to date, and a more sustained art-historical appraisal would depend on the further development of the multi-medium practice and on her continuing presence in the IMC and Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers exhibition record.

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.

Pat Griffin is a contemporary printmaker working in the mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock) tradition. Their work contributes to the living tradition of Japanese woodblock printing. Prices for contemporary mokuhanga prints range from $100 for smaller works to $1,500 for major compositions. Most prints sell in the $180–$600 range. The global mokuhanga community has been growing, with increasing exhibition opportunities and collector interest. Contemporary mokuhanga represents an affordable entry point for collectors.