Martin Griffiths was born in Oxford in 1955. His experience of living in the West Indies and Far East as a child, surrounded by intense colour, was, he believes, a decisive influence on his choice of career. After training at Gloucestershire College of Art and Design, he moved to Pembrokeshire in the far West of Wales to start working as a painter. His early work focused on landscape, and during a long period of experimentation evolved gradually from figuration to abstraction, culminating in a period of intense change in the mid-90s. During his early career in Wales he exhibitied from his own gallery near St David's as well as lecturing part-time for the University of Wales. In the 1990s, he had solo exhibitions at the West Wales Arts Centre and the Museum of Modern Art, Wales, and begain to show his work more widely. He has exhibited across
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Britain and has been featured in group exhibitions in London. He has also exhibited in New York. His work is held in private collections in USA and Europe, including Holland, Germany and Switzerland, and in the collection of MOMA, Wales. He is among the artists featured in 'Who's Who in Welsh Art, 1945-99". In 2002 he moved to Lincolnshire, and during a further period of intense experimentation, received a grant from Arts Council England to develop and exhibit two-dimensional light works. This body of work was shown at the Sam Scorer Gallery, Lincoln, in 2003, and inspired his move from painting to scupture in 2004. Since 2004, light has been the principle medium in his work, and since 2005 he has exhibited at the Cass Foundation, Goodwood Sculpture Park.
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