Craig Griffin

Craig Griffin
Fine Art/Illustration
(Commissions Taken)
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EDUCATION:

2003 - 2005 Distinction in Masters of Fine Art (MFA International Practice) Kent Institute of Art and
Design, KIAD (Canterbury)
2001 - 2003 BA First Class (Hons) Degree in Visual Communication (Illustration) Kent Institute of Art
and Design, KIAD (Maidstone)
2000 - 2001 BTEC Foundation in Art & Design, Kent Institute of Art and Design, KIAD (Maidstone)

The interdisciplinary nature of my work combines interests in architecture, calligraphy, graphics, illustration, digital and fine arts within the framework of ‘the sublime’; a quasi-religious experience of the limitless immensity in nature and abstraction. I see my work focusing on architecture and figures behind which complicated abstract forms visualize themes such as ruin and the fragmentation of memory. I mostly work on paper, using acrylic based paints and general mixed media processes which are sometimes then threaded through a series of digital and printmaking processes.

I am working towards achieving emotions reminiscent of those captured by Casper David Friedrich and the late work of the New York abstract painter Mark Rothko. The parallels between these artists, in their search for the sublime, is the basis of my own painting; capturing a sense of the obscure, isolation, feeling of melancholy and human powerlessness against the ominous forces of nature and the fleeting enviroment of the present. Influences also include Stanley Donwood, Ralph Steadman, Koyaanisqatsi, Anslem Kiefer, Grant Gee, Tchocky & Krzystof Kieslowski.