Artist Terri Lloyd offers a quirky collection of figurative paintings made in her distinct up to date fashion. Find extra of her portfolio by going to her web site.
“Camino Encanto” acrylic on paper, 18″ x 24″
I have both of those electronic and conventional art creating competencies. For the longest time I prevented painting. I felt my traditional perform would not evaluate up to my digital work. The dying of my father in 2017 was the catalyst that returned me to portray.
“A Lesson in Conformity” acrylic on canvas, 24″ x 36″ x 2.5″
I invested a 12 months unlearning all I realized about painting. The very first step was to switch hands and paint with my non-dominant hand. This would suspend my internal critic and give me the independence to develop an reliable voice. The following stage was to only paint on paper so my interior artist would not get in the way of the approach.
“The Couch” acrylic on canvas, 36″ x 24″ x 2.5″
When the still left-handed will work grew to become fantastic, I returned my brush to my dominant hand. And I returned to painting on canvas.
“The Incantation” acrylic on canvas, 24″ x 36″ x 2.5″
At this stage, I began exploiting previous family pictures for content material. The photographs are quirky and deficiency composition. This pushed me to acquire dangers of my individual, typically pealing absent what or who is not required. I’m no more time fascinated in the arthritic suffering of technical excellence. Telling a story with as small sound as probable gives clarity. A clarity of sensation alternatively than photographic or historic precision.
“The Reluctant Monk Prepares Her Mother’s Ashes” acrylic on canvas, 24″ x 36″ x 2.5″
It was through my sequence, In The Court docket Of The Easter Queen, that I found a new voice.
“Instant Coffee” acrylic on paper, 18″ x 24″
But, it’s not ample for me to only paint. This past year, I understood that guiding just about every overall body of do the job, behind each portray is a tale that requirements telling.
“Irish Snow Twins” acrylic on canvas, 24″ x 36″ x 2.5″
It doesn’t do the get the job done justice to not include things like the tales, the characters, the functions that inform the painting. So, I took the stories and the paintings to online video for a more a few dimensional knowledge.
“Happy Philodendron” acrylic on canvas, 24″ x 36″ x 2.5″
Video clip not only enables me to notify a tale, it lets me to set the tone and cadence for our journey together. I use both equally primary visible content and inventory video and tunes content. I generate and edit all the tales myself. Enhancing appears to be to be a never-ending approach.
“Learning To Grow to be Objects” acrylic on canvas, 24″ x 66″ x 2.5″
Themes that affect both equally my visual art and storytelling are: Grief and decline The Hero’s Journey and archetypes humor and absurdity and zeitgeist. Once in a while, I permit banality slip in.
“Say Mrs. Sippy” acrylic on canvas, 24″ x 36″ x 2.5″
For me, the act of telling a tale makes connection. A deeper relationship than searching at a portray. It opens up liminal room. In that room I give you a piece of me and I bear in mind who I am.
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