the art of Sally Griffin

Sally Colahan Griffin has a career in the visual arts, primarily painting and murals, sometimes photography.

Griffin, from a very early age, was covering the long laminated bar at home, which acted as a room divider between kitchen and lounge, with drawings. Sometimes they were ajaxed off, sometimes they survived a few days, and on this surface, she had her first lessons in drawing.

Sally’s life and love of nature and landscape are a component of her art. Her time periods overlap as they do in real life and historical events interrupt the flow as do future possibilities.

In style and philosophy, she is closest to non-traditional realism and believes it is with a fusion of historical and currents events, with memory and experience, that a ‘new realism’ can be made.