Lloyd Washington

About the Artist

Lloyd trained from 1961 to 1966 at The Hornsey College of Art and the Royal College of Art. He worked for a few years as a designer and migrated to commerce for the remainder of his career, dabbling occasionally but not returning to art until his retirement in 2001. Starting again from scratch, in an amateur capacity, he divided his attention between sculpture and painting, focusing more on painting in recent years. He worked in two prime media; oils to produce very traditional, representational work (mainly still life paintings) and acrylics to produce images employing greater freedom in both contextual and formal aspects. He used mixed media for sculptures. His non-conventional work was mainly generated by ideas derived from his travels, world news, history and sometimes the paintings of the old masters. In broad terms it was the image that mattered to Lloyd. The media and genre were chosen to suit. The iconography could often be surreal and the technique might vary from comic strip to hard-edge abstraction. Major influences ranged from Vermeer to Joseph Cornell via Max Ernst.