A watercolour artist in the traditional style and largely self taught since picking up a brush in 2002. Bruce pays tribute to the guidance in the use of colour in watercolour in the hands of world renowned Australian based artists Robert Wade, Robert Lovett, Greg Allen, David Taylor & Joseph Zbukvic - a very rich heritage to widen your horizons. It simply opened my eyes to what was possible.” Bruce uses exclusively Windsor & newton paints and quality artgrade papers. Many years in the South East Queensland construction scene, Bruce has seen the growth that will forever change the land but he insists that a simple beauty is still there. “You just have to look harder”.
Bruce admits there is art in the blood. “My father was a wonderful drawer of characters although he never published professionally. All my family is creative; musicians, dressmakers or artists of some kind. I was a late bloomer and now there is never enough time to paint”.
Bruce is a prize winning artist and exhibitor from Hervey Bay North, Murwillumbah South and west to Warwick & Stanthorpe.
His first solo exhibition was held March 2008 at Lovett Gallery, West Burleigh. That was followed up with a much larger solo exhibition of some seventy two pieces in 2009 at Watling Galleries, Southport. Ph:61 7 5531 4781. Watling galleries is now Bruce's Gold Coast base gallery which can be accessed online, www.watlingart.com , then look for the artist link to bruce griffiths. Watling will be the base for his next Solo show anticipated to be march 2012. Bruce has also joined in group showings and many of his works can be viewed on this website. In addition, he has works on display in Toowoomba(Murrays Art & Framing), Angels on the Walk(Mt Tambourine Gallery Walk road) and Bruce Watling Fine Art Gallery, Southport (61 7 5531 4781) as Gold Coast home to a growing selection of Bruce's artwork.
Says Bruce, ”There is a momentum, a time when all factors fall into place and I am excited about the exposure the galleries and this website will provide and the emotion that I offer the art loving public through my paintings.”
Bruce's base Gold Coast gallery - www.watlingart.com (61 7 5531 4781)
“Give someone a present that will forever increase in value - give them a painting!”