Born in Adelaide in 1948, Peter Griffen has been painting for over fifty years. He lives and works in his warehouse studio in the inner west of Sydney and travels throughout Australia and overseas exhibiting and teaching.

He has had over 70 solo exhibitions, most in Australia, five exhibitions in London, four in Paris, two in St Tropez, one in Lyon and one in New Zealand. His participation in group exhibitions is also widespread; art fairs in Canada, UK, Belgium, Singapore, Melbourne and Sydney, he has been a finalist in the Blake, Sulman, Dobell, Fleurieu, Eutick, Alice, Faber-Castell, Fishers Ghost, Biennale Internationale du Pastel (France) and has been invited to exhibit in the Tattersalls Landscape Exhibition, Brisbane, and Messagers de la Terre (France). He won the Muswellbrook aquisitive prize for works on paper.

The Macquarie University and Qantas have large collections of his work and Griffen’s work is in numerous other public and private collections world wide. His commissions are many  and include Public Art for Keaman Constructions in Sydney.

Since 2013 he has been the President of the Glebe Art Show and in 2022  became a member of the Royal Art Society of NSW. He is a member of the Australian Watercolour Institute.

Peter has been publicised in many publications, on radio and television and has judged many art prizes in Sydney and country NSW