Divergence 2 Painting

Aly Lloyd is a British artist living and working in South West England. She is recognised for her distinctive and contemporary painting style that fuses geometric abstractions and interlocking patterns with deconstructed and expressive natural form. Her meticulous and methodical approach to painting results in compositions often perceived as having a post-internet digital aesthetic and elements of optical illusion yet emotionally charged undertones. She predominantly chooses women as her subject matter, portraying them as symbols of strength and resilience and draws upon her daily experiences for inspiration, building multiple layers of found and distorted imagery into her compositions. Central to her practice is the exploration of visual properties at opposing ends of the spectrum – primarily between free-flowing natural form and the fixed lines and rules of mathematical shape, but also in spectral extremes of colour and artistic styles (abstraction versus intricate detail) and the impact these have on our visual experience. She considers her instinctive desire to deconstruct stimuli into patterns, categories and binary simplicity as fundamental to the way she processes the world around her and part of her journey to explore her own neurodiversity. Aly was born in the Forest of Dean (Gloucestershire, England) in 1990. She is self-taught, although was painting and drawing from a young age. She spent her early years honing her craft alongside studies in Psychology, obtaining a Ph.D., and a subsequent career in the fashion industry. She considers her diverse journey as having a profound influence on her work – from her acutely analytical mindset and interest in capturing and portraying the human psyche, to her intrinsic love of contemporary, innovative and emotionally charged aesthetic that convey a subtle story about her subjects.