Esther Griffith is a

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ian painter. She mainly paints portraits. Griffith is a graduate of the

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. She works in oil and watercolor. Apart from painting, she also creates ceramics. '' 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." '' 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

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Leonora Pujadas-McShine Leonora Pujadas-McShine (1910 – 2 April 1995) was a Trinidadian women's rights activist and community worker. When Trinidad and Tobago granted universal suffrage, she established the first League of Women Voters in the country to educate women ...

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, including some of Griffith's works {{DEFAULTSORT:Griffith, Esther Living people 20th-century Trinidad and Tobago women 21st-century Trinidad and Tobago women Trinidad and Tobago women painters Year of birth missing (living people) Trinidad and Tobago watercolourists 20th-century Trinidad and Tobago painters 21st-century Trinidad and Tobago painters 20th-century women painters 21st-century women painters