James Lloyd

James Lloyd (1905 - 1974)

"Like Wallis, like Scottie Wilson, James Lloyd painted flat on the kitchen table. But unlike Wallis, Lloyd did'nt move around the table to paint objects as if everything was observed from the same angle. Now was his world entirely imaginary like Scottie's; he was a relist in the sense the he did aim, although at times approximately, at depth and perspective. He was, however, completely obsessive: eveything he painted was build up from a series of dots; a compulsive, infinitely painstaking method of painting that could be compared to Wilson's innumerable penstrokes."

Extract from " A Tribe of One, Great Naive Painters of the British Isles" by George Melly

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