Adrian Lloyd

Born in 1975 in Abergavenny, a market town known as the Gateway to Wales in the UK, Adrian lived his infant years just up the road in the tiny Welsh village of Wyesham. To this day, Adrian's heart belongs to Wales and he regularly visits family in and around the Wye Valley, the Forest of Dean and the Black Mountains.

It wasn't all good times though as Adrian's father was a drunkard and abusive towards his Mother and so Adrian and his learning-disabled brother were moved to Cliftonville, Margate, Kent in England around 1980. Having always had a pencil in his hand, in the early 1990's Adrian studied Art and Art History at Chatham House Grammar School but due to childhood depression he dropped out before gaining any qualifications beyond GCSEs and after several years of low paid jobs, Adrian took up software development to pay the bills.

Following an almost fatal motorcycle accident in 2000, Adrian needed facial reconstruction and unfortunately, lost the ability to use his left eye. As a result, Adrian hasdouble-vision (diplopia) which he can keep under control of with the use of a blackout contact lens which acts as a patch over his left eye and this gives him monocular vision (vision out of only a single eye). Some argue that single eye vision, or vision with a dominant eye, is a great advantage when it comes to depicting 3D objects on a 2D surface like portrait painting for example.

Adrian married a wonderful lady and talented artist Ann in 2010. Together, they have two beautiful daughters who are often the inspiration for Adrian's paintings.

In 2019 at the tender age of 44, after a year of caring for his brother and rather than returning to software development, Adrian started painting professionally.

Adrian's passion is painting in oils and in researching the methods and techniques some of the Old Masters may have used to produce such wonderful drawings and paintings which have lasted so many years. In an effort to make his paintings last as long as possible Adrian endeavours to only use high-quality materials and to replicate some of the painting methods used by the Old Masters. Adrian visits the large galleries in London and, as often as possible, the family visit Florence to soak up the history where, on their last visit, were lucky enough to create some frescoes to bring home