Chrissie Lloyd ARAS - Councillor

For several years in my 20’s I enjoyed oil painting. Then in 1990 I went back to art working in watercolour, mixed media and acrylic. I studied with Pamela Fairburn, a noted Sydney watercolourist and also with the late Arthur James, an artist of international repute in life drawing. For six years I studied portraiture both in oils and charcoal with renowned portrait artist Yve Close.

I also enjoyed life drawing and sculpture with Alan Somerville for four years. I have attended many workshops and tutorials with well known Australian & New Zealand artists including Bernhardine Mueller (master printmaker) and Patrick Carroll (multi-award winning Australian landscape artist) whose approach in both the physical and spiritual sense has influenced my use of acrylic and the way I “feel and see” the landscape. No matter how widely I travel the Australian landscape has my heart.

I exhibit at Humble House Gallery in Canberra; at the Royal Easter Show; previously through Judith Salmon of Salmon Galleries in North Sydney; previously with the Woodford Bay Group of Artists; at exhibitions held by Art Societies of which I am a member and other exhibitions in which I am invited to participate including the Hunters Hill Art Exhibition. I have been invited to both speak and do demonstrations for Art Societies, and for five years I was an invited judge for the Eve Vonwiller Youth Art Prize organised by Lane Cove Council.

Commissioned works currently hang in private collections in Australia, the UK, USA and New Zealand. Three of my paintings were recently purchased by the US Embassy in Canberra.

For commissions please contact me through my email address, chrissielloyd@live.com.au

http://www.chrissielloyd.com/