David
Lloyd
After receiving a First Class
degree (hons) in Fine Art, David Lloyd completed his post-graduate studies
at the Royal Academy.
He has received the Kennington
Prize as well as a Leverhume scholarship.
He has exhibited widely in
venues ranging from Sotheby’s, London to the Centro Modigliani,
Florence.
He says of his paintings:
“They evolve slowly over a
long period of time; months or years. I try to work without preconceived
ideas. I want the final image to be as mysterious and inexplicable to me
as it, hopefully, is to the viewer. During the painting process I try to
stay dumb. I try not to listen to my head. I don’t want to make clever,
cerebral, issue-based images. I want to listen to my heart. This isn’t
an anti-intellectual position exactly, it’s just that I’m not
particularly intelligent or sophisticated, so any attempts to make
‘conceptual’ work would be obvious and banal.
I’m suspicious of any artist
who claims to be the final authority on his/her work. An artist who thinks
he/she is ultimately in control of what he or she makes is working under
an illusion. The most interesting part of what any artist does, is done
without conscious control.