Cheltenham Art

Artists

Andy Lloyd's Portraits

As I have developed my painting style down the years I have found myself painting more and more of the same kind of picture. This is not unusual for artists in that they want their paintings to be recognisable.  But my direction is somewhat unusual in that I have leaned towards portraits, which is not particularly fashionable to be honest. But I find painting portraits to be a challenge, and I enjoy creating them.

These next paintings are typical of my exhibition works:  the far-away look at the window.  They give me a chance to work on the effects created by strong, horizontal light, which I find fascinating.:

Here follow some paintings from years past along the same lines, most of which are in the hands of local collectors:

Slow Art

"The camera, if it's lucky, may tell a different truth to drawing - but not a truer one.  Drawing brings us into a different, a deeper and more fully experienced relationship to the object. A good drawing says: 'Not so fast, buster.'

"We have had a gutful of fast art and fast food. What we need more of is slow art: art that holds time as a vase holds water.  Art that grows out of modes of perception and making whose skill and doggedness make you think and feel; art that isn't merely sensational, that doesn't get its message across in ten seconds, that isn't falsely iconic, that hooks onto something deep-running in our natures."

Robert Hughes writing in The Times, June 2004