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I studied , first at Medway College (1980-81), then Camberwell School of Art (1981-84). After working for many years as an occasionally exhibiting artist, I put my art on hold to work as a mural painter, sign writer and exhibition installation technician in London.
In 2001, I bought a flat in Folkestone and took up painting afresh.
The Work.
Recent paintings have depicted a landscape colonised by a conglomeration of slender, intricate, yet commanding structures that testify to our hunger for instant communication. I have become fascinated by the architecture of radio and mobile telephone masts, transmitting stations, motorway bridges and other feats of engineering, and by how these things look when we encounter them. I am an active consumer of technology, and am no campaigner against these features, but I believe that growing up in a village just outside Folkestone, Kent, and witnessing, (with a considerable degree of distress), the transformation of the Downland landscape brought about by the construction of the Channel Tunnel, has had a formative influence on this work.
My ongoing aim is to respond to aspects and elements within the landscape around me, and to question my own reflex reactions and perhaps reveal an incongruous beauty in juxtaposition.
Exhibitions.
(Though I exhibited in the eighties and nineties, I consider my recent work to be a fresh start, and as such will only refer to recent exhibitions).
Cafe Gallery Open, Southwark, 2005 & 2006.
Waterloo Open, 2006
The Works of Others, Whitechapel Library, 2006
New Landscapes, by Vincent Lloyd, Georges House Gallery, Folkestone, March 2007.
Work can be seen at Grocery, Folkestone, (ongoing).
Inspiration/Influences.
Among other things, I am inspired by; my wife, Bruegel and other early Flemish painters, Edward Hopper, Edward Wadsworth, Ladybird books (John Berry), birds, walking, cycling (at leisurely pace), Tristram Hillier, Richard Dawkins/Charles Darwin, Paul Nash, civil engineering and the sea.
