Kay Griffith

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KAY GRIFFITH AND HER COLORSCAPES

Kay Griffith, a native Texan, states that she always knew she could paint and believed that she would do so “at some point in the future”. As her life took her along other paths, she never wavered from the belief that she would be an oil painter when the time came to do so..

Along the way, Kay took a class in color and design. At another time she participated in weekly oil painting classes, taught by Larry Prellop. In the mid 90’s the opportunity to paint full time came to Griffith. She embraced the opportunity, paying no attention the skeptics. From the beginning, her work sold. She has been a professional artist for 16 years, and she has owned a gallery for more than eight years.

In her quest for excellence, Griffith continually worked to gain more knowledge about oil painting. She gives Dalhart Windberg the credit for teaching her how to “technically control the paint”. Additionally, Griffith states that her first professional quality palette knife was a gift from Windberg.

For the past few years Griffith has worked to integrate technical knowledge with what comes naturally to her as an artist. This effort has resulted in an ever increasing number of non-representational abstract paintings, displaying what Griffith calls “color before form”. It is with these abstract paintings that her career has taken flight. Their appeal spans age and geography. The pieces are emotionally evocative.

Griffith resists the idea that it is important for viewers of her work to know much about her. She insists that viewing these abstracts is about the interaction between the viewer and the painting, not about the artist. She says her abstracts “speak for themselves”. And that: they do. Laughter, joy, anger, and sometimes tears have been evoked. Conversations, debates, and heated arguments have been overheard while viewing them. They seem to touch something deep within.