ABOUT

Aly Lloyd is a painter, textile artist and printmaker based in Painswick. Her practice explores perception, attention and sensory experience through painting. Working with light-responsive textiles that shift with movement and viewing angle, such as velvet and denim, her works encourage attentive looking and foreground painting as an active sensory experience.

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Material folds, pattern and geometric structures recur throughout her work, creating images that move between recognition and abstraction. The works often depict the material surface on the material itself - such as folds of velvet painted onto velvet - creating ambiguity between painted illusion and physical material. Cropping, fragmentation and reconstruction are used to interrupt perception and sustain attention, drawing attention back to the painted surface while reflecting the ways images are increasingly encountered and consumed in contemporary life. Developed through research and experimentation, her distinctive textile painting process allows paint to be applied directly onto fabric while preserving its texture, movement and optical qualities.

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Drawing on a PhD background spanning visual psychology, design communication and computer science, Lloyd's practice bridges scientific research, digital design and contemporary painting. Alongside her academic background, she has pursued ongoing study in critical theory and contemporary art practice through independent research, alternative arts education programmes and mentoring with industry professionals.

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​Lloyd has exhibited nationally through Sotheby's, Mall Galleries, Saatchi Art's The Other Art Fair and Elysium Gallery. Through her practice, she explores painting as a fundamental human act of expression, connection and non-verbal communication, viewing it as a form of sensory and cognitive processing through which we understand and respond to the world around us. In 2024, she launched a working studio in Painswick which is permanently open to the public, as part of a wider commitment to making art more accessible, participatory and connected to everyday life.