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Sometimes the artist's life is a relaxed affair. Peaceful times in the studio, with a glass of Multepulciano and Mozart playing as paint is added in an interesting, perhaps challenging, way to the canvas........




STUDIO WORKSHOP Autumn 2026 dates soon

LEVELS OF ABSTRACTION

14-15 March 2026... $420

a free form painting workshop with Peter Griffen in his Leichhardt studio for all abilities

acrylic paint sponsored by DERIVAN
paper supplied
please bring your brushes and any other equipment that you would like to use. You may wish to work from your imagination or in response to photos, sketches, objects, other artists paintings and so on....just bring them along...non representational abstract, landscape, figure, still life, and so on; your choice

Denise serves a delicious homemade morning tea and a gourmet lunch with wine

Warehouse home and studio 21 Emma St Leichhardt 2040 NSW

For more information or to book call 0402116818, petergriffen@bigpond.com www.petergriffen.com



Royal Art Society NSW

Luna Park and Sydney Harbour

December 2025

Patrick Carroll and Members


25-27 Walker St  North Sydney

02 9955 5752 


Arkaroola Art Adventure 2026

 ARKAROOLA WORKSHOP

1-8 September 2026


Exciting desert landscape, large studio, acrylic paint and paper supplied, all meals and motel accommodation.


Contact sam@amazingpeople.com.au


For details of other upcoming Workshops be sure to follow Peter Griffen's Facebook page.

Hadleys Art Prize

My "Small Rocks and Wild Grass", acrylic, oil stick, charcoal and graphite on canvas, 90x120cm, has been chosen to be exhibited in the Hadleys Art Prize, Hobart, 2025. The first prize is $100,000.

Recently acquired for a private collection

"Keogh's Dam, Lightning Ridge" acrylic on canvas, 100x120cm 

Linton and Kay, Perth gallery

2026 visit to WA and our key gallery to review and refresh current works on display or in stock.

....approaching exhibition

Royal Art Society of NSW

Members exhibition,"Vive la France" 10-27July2025, opening 11 July 6-8pm 

25-27 Walker St, North Sydney 

02 99555752

see my "Before the Fire" gouache on paper 28x32cm

Mudgee Workshop/ Exhibition

 November 2026...dates soon. Free Form Painting, in the mud hut, Rosby Estate, Mudgee, NSW...for more info email kay@rosby.com.au

petergriffen@bigpond.com

Canberra Commission

One of a number of mixed media on paper works commissioned by the National Capital Private Hospital, to view more go to the "Landscapes" section on this website.

Canberra Workshop

November 2024. Great to be back in Canberra for my Free Form Painting Workshop.

Sharing The Same Moon - Exhibition

October  2024. Influenced by Eastern Mark Making I have created a number of paintings. A number of these are showing at 48 Edward Street, Summerhill.

Sculpture in The Garden

October 2024. My Blue Bird Of Paradise is featuring in a sculpture exhibition at Rosby Estate in Mudgee.

Glebe Art Show

THE GLEBE ART SHOW 2025


Harold Park Tramsheds, Glebe. 

 A very exciting exhibition

Glebe Art Show Opens

October 2024. Opening The Glebe Art show with wonderful crowd including Lord Mayor Clover Moore and Mayor Darcy Byrne. Both our art loving Mayors also spoke.

Earth Poetry

Earth Poetry 3.

Peter Griffen, Denise Lithgow and Wendy Redden

SHOP GALLERY, GLEBE

July 2024

 contact petergriffen@bigpond.com

Exhibition. New York bound.

Great to have Merridy Lithgow now representing 

me in New York.

 Merridy was in our studio this week collecting a series of works on paper that she will take back for an upcoming exhibition in New York


ISAC, Inner Sydney Art Centre Initiative

The Glebe Art Society supports the push to fill the gap, the INNER SYDNEY needs a PUBIC REGIONAL GALLERY!


If you would like to know more , or you want to throw your support behind this initiate simply contact Peter,  the President of The Glebe Art Society, petergriffen@bigpond.com

Australian Watercolour Institute Exhibition

My “Mapping the Finke” is in the Australian Watercolour Institute Exhibition.

Lions Gate Lodge, Botanical Gardens, Sydney.

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