Painter, performance and installation artist, and teacher, born in Bristol, whose integrity and sensitivity were encapsulated within a fragile personality, denying him wide recognition. After Salisbury College of Art, in 1959 Lloyd-Jones entered Chelsea College of Art where the principal, Lawrence Gowing, was his great champion and where he was to teach from 1961–4. Lloyd-Jones had won a Boise Travelling Scholarship to Sweden, 1960, and a Gulbenkian Foundation Purchase Award, 1962. He had a well-received solo show at the New Art Centre, 1965, the Arts Council acquiring his abstract drawing March No II. Later taught part-time at Maidenhead College of Art, 1965–70, and Hammersmith College of Art, 1973–4. Lloyd-Jones’s wife, the artist Jane Percival, whom he replaced at Hammersmith when she was expecting their second daughter, remembered his huge student following “because he took things to the edge, when talking.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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