Esther Griffith

{{Short description|Trinidadian painter}}

File:Esther Griffith portrait.jpg

Esther Griffith is a Trinidadian painter. She mainly paints portraits.{{cite web |last1=Greaves |first1=Debra |title=5 artists in Patchwork Revolution |url=https://newsday.co.tt/2020/09/22/5-artists-in-patchwork-revolution/ |website=Trinidad and Tobago Newsday |access-date=8 March 2022 |date=22 September 2020}}{{cite web |last1=Liu |first1=Jasmine |title=Wikipedia Launches "Wiki Unseen," Commissioning Artists To Paint Portraits of BIPOC Figures |url=https://hyperallergic.com/710627/wikipedia-launches-wiki-unseen/ |website=Hyperallergic |access-date=8 March 2022 |date=9 February 2022}}

Griffith is a graduate of the University of the West Indies.{{cite web |title=Wiki Unseen Focus: Esther Griffith – ART AFRICA Magazine |url=https://www.artafricamagazine.org/wiki-unseen-focus-esther-griffith/ |website=ART AFRICA |access-date=8 March 2022 |date=25 February 2022}} She works in oil and watercolor.{{cite web |title=The University of The West Indies Department of Creative and Festival Arts VISUAL ARTS EXHIBITION 2012 |url=https://sta.uwi.edu/fhe/dcfa/documents/Catalogue2012.pdf |page=18|website=University of the West Indies |access-date=8 March 2022 |date=2012}} Apart from painting, she also creates ceramics.{{cite web |last1=Griffith |first1=Esther |title=About |url=https://www.esthergriffith.com/about.html |website=Esther Griffith- Visual Artist |access-date=8 March 2022 |language=en}}

Trinidad and Tobago Guardian described one of her paintings as "radiated with an air of optimism but also reinforced a sense of shifts and motion with its energetic brushstrokes."{{cite web |last1=Pearce |first1=Marsha |title=Art and the City |url=https://www.guardian.co.tt/article-6.2.355471.072e80badc |website=Trinidad and Tobago Guardian |access-date=8 March 2022 |language=en |date=26 June 2016}} Trinidad and Tobago Newsday states that "her paintings are usually portraits where hyper-realism is juxtaposed against the abstract."

She has made portraits for Wiki Unseen, a Wikimedia Foundation collaboration aimed at providing depictions for BIPOC Wikipedia biographies without an image of the subject.{{Cite web |last=Murphy |first=Xavier |date=2022-03-23 |title=Meet Esther Griffith The Artist Who Will Be Bringing To Life Prominent Caribbean Figures To Wikipedia |url=http://jamaicans.com/meet-esther-griffith-the-artist-who-will-be-bringing-to-life-prominent-caribbean-figures-to-wikipedia/ |access-date=2022-11-12 |website=Jamaicans.com |language=en-US}} As of 2022, she lives in Trinidad and Tobago.

Watercolor Portrait of Leonora Pujadas-McShine on a Pink Background for Wiki Unseen.jpg|Leonora Pujadas-McShine

Mercedes Richards Watercolor for Wiki Unseen.jpg|Mercedes Richards

Asquith Xavier Watercolor for Wiki Unseen.jpg|Asquith Xavier