Chrissie Lloyd – Sunshower behind midnight velvet storm clouds I

Artist Statement

I was in the Lovedale area of the Hunter Valley at Midnight’s Promise Estate Winery. The sky darkened dramatically as a storm approached from the east. Bolts of lightning lit up the sky and I dashed outside to witness the angry sky drop its load of rain on the vineyard (and me).

These three paintings capture my excitement as the storm clouds approached then rolled over my head allowing me to see through to the fading sunshine with the deepening colour of sunset hiding behind. Loud cracks of thunder followed by lightning brought an intensity of noise, deep indigo blue greys and drama. It was as if Thor had indeed arrived to show me his might! I loved it.

About the Artist

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; with the Woodford Bay Group of Artists; at the Royal Easter Show; previously through Judith Salmon of Salmon Galleries in North Sydney; 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, Waterbrook Greenwich and Waterbrook Yowie Bay. I have been invited to both speak and do demonstrations for Art Societies and for years I was an invited judge for the Eve Vonwiller Youth Art Prize.

Commissioned works currently hang in private collections in Australia, the UK, USA and New Zealand.

Chrissie Lloyd C.V.