Lloyd Gill
Lloyd Gill
Lloyd Gill
He has found painting and drawing a massive release from the pressures of running a contemporary art gallery which has sustained a cutting edge momentum. Lloyd is passionate about painting and devotes his evenings to listening to the radio and getting into the rhythm of expression through heavy brush strokes and allows for freedom of movement.
Lloyd is trying to depict the action sequence of many cinematic concepts of police car's chasing the rebel driving the car in front.
Lloyd paints with free expression and dominates colour tones with an organic language. He tries to capture the essence of speed and adrenaline that the driver would be feeling.
His work re-enacts the movement and confrontation of a car chase with the endurance of the driver through adrenalin pumping round the system. The use of colour has been contorted and ripples an essence of organic competence.
Lloyd is passionate about drawing and is showing a small selection of oil pastels, which are worth viewing along side his dramatic cinematic renditions.
Series: Way of the West 2010
Lloyd Gill examines the dialogue between characters in film. He finds characters in Westerns most absurd and likes to paint this notion of absurdity through depicting the very scenes they exist in and entering alternating text into his paintings.
Lloyd has juxtaposed dialogue between difference Western films, like ‘A fistful of dollars’, directed by Sergio Leone, starring Clint Eastwood and ‘The outlaw’, directed by Josey Wales.
His paintings are primarily figurative with gestural expression. “I like to feel the paint flow and allow for the paint to render its own body” Lloyd paints thickly and is influence by the German expressive painter Georg Baselitz, for his use of freedom with paint and fluidity.
He wants the paintings to represent the films he watches, mostly Westerns, but to have there own identity through changing the original colours, to colours which are more spontaneous in their direction.
Series Film Noir 2011
Lloyd finds dialogue in old films full of wisdom and wit. He draws from the very scenes characters Humphrey Bogart played and who optomised romantic gestures. The witty dialogue written for films such as ‘The Big Sleep’ has been juxtaposed with different scenes they were not originally intended for in Lloyd’s artwork. The purpose here is to mock the mechanics of the original story written by Raymond Chandler and to divide the script in such a fashion as to make the scenes humorous.
These drawings on show in the exhibition are preliminary studies for work, which will be oil on canvas. Lloyd enjoys working in ink and pencil on paper and finds that studies always lead to better developed work.
Lloyd graduated with a BA in Fine Art at U.W.I.C in Cardiff and has shown his work in Bristol, Bath, Scarbourgh, Weston-Super-Mare, London, and Cardiff. He has won numerous Art prizes including the 'Harry Walker young artist award 2002 in the Victoria Gallery in Bath'. Lloyd won a publication in the magazine Funds Europe which led to sales and more exhibitions. Lloyd will continuo to work relentlessly as an Artist, while working fulltime at the Gallery.
He recently participated in The Big Ink, Charity Art Auction, Amersham Arms, New Cross, London 2009. Over two thousand pounds was raised at the auction for Cancer research.
Lloyd has shown his work at his Gallery on numerous occasions. Most recently is the exhibition he curated titled 'Art & Language' May - June 2010. |
