Hallowed Ground Dion Salvador Lloyd
Hallowed Ground 13 November - 12 December 2015 Dion Salvador Lloyd
4 Bartlett Street Bath BA1 2QZ Mon - Sat 10am - 6pm (Wed 2pm - 6pm) 01225 460189
www.davidsimoncontemporary.com
Dion Salvador Lloyd’s
paintings are music made visual; marks and colours are interwoven in rhythms and melodies, lifting and carrying you into them, making the hairs on your neck stand up. As you travel visually across their surface and explore the spaces they suggest, a poignant voice talks to you of places you have been, memory you half-recall, journeys you have made. The surfaces he creates are loaded with a tone of times past or lost, emotive worlds. These landscapes are not planned or site-specific but emerge out of a journey through paint, intuitive descriptions built by worked layers that reveal and conceal. They are atmospheres, energized and charged, they move and sway as the wind blows through them and takes our breath away. The confidence and energy of Dion Salvador Lloyd’s work seems to constantly develop and his studio currently thrives with a fluid practice and looser suggestions. Possibly driven by his decision to make more gestural and immediate works on paper, Lloyd has found an impetus and sense of freedom. The abstraction and improvisation of his recent works is a window onto his belief in paint as a living material; able to become both image and emotion. The canvases that will form the backbone of his show at David Simon Contemporary in Bath, are alive and kicking, structured so as to breathe in and out. They have been left unpinned, harnessing energy from their freedom, kinetic compositions and markmaking. They continue to explore gravity and the interplay of horizons and skies but they allow space and physical suggestions to float and freefall; treelines and rivers disappear if you look directly at them and imagined mountains seem to melt away. Lloyd’s signature style remains; his marks and palette are his handwriting, as they describe his decision-making and tell tales of his soul. All these elements are logical extensions of his previous paintings, building and retaining the unique qualities that define his work, but more excitingly, they start to sing about a future unbound.
Sam Lock 2015
photograph by Marcus Haydock
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Honeyhill oil on Fabriano paper 25 x 35cm
Eldorado oil on canvas 95 x 130cm
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Hallowed oil on canvas 30 x 30cm
Desire oil on canvas 30 x 30cm
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Psalm oil on canvas 40 x 50cm
Northlandings oil on canvas 30 x 61cm
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Burn oil on Fabriano paper 25 x 35cm
Alongside oil on Fabriano paper 25 x 35cm
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Landview oil on canvas 95 x 95cm
Equinox oil on canvas 95 x 130cm
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Otherside oil on Fabriano paper 56 x 77cm
Celestial oil on canvas 95 x 130cm
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Autumn oil on canvas 75 x 75cm
Cloudburst oil on canvas 75 x 75cm
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Birdland oil on Fabriano paper 25 x 35cm
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Candescent oil on Fabriano paper 25 x 35cm
Afterglow oil on canvas 95 x 130cm
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Nightfall oil on Fabriano paper 25 x 35cm
Nightingale oil on Fabriano paper 25 x 35cm
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Orchard oil on canvas 40 x 50cm
Birdsong oil on canvas 40 x 50cm
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Archaic oil on Fabriano paper 25 x 35cm
Floodlands oil on Fabriano paper 25 x 35cm
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Fractured oil on canvas 95 x 130cm
Sparks oil on canvas 75 x 75cm
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Swansong oil on canvas 95 x 130cm
Scorched oil on canvas 75 x 75cm
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Willow oil on Fabriano paper 25 x 35cm
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Angelic oil on Fabriano paper 25 x 35cm
Reverie oil on canvas 30 x 30cm 33
Selected Solo Exhibitions 2017 (Sept) Gallery Art Veritas, Onsala, Sweden 2017 (June) Wall Projects, Montrose, Scotland 2016 (June) Denise Yapp Contemporary, Monmouth 2016 (Sept) Belgravia Gallery, Mayfair, London 2015 (Nov) David Simon Contemporary, Bath 2015 Northcote Gallery, London 2014 Saffron Gallery, Battle 2014 Denise Yapp Contemporary Art, Monmouth 2013 Northcote Gallery, London 2013 Belgravia Gallery, Hove 2010 Belgravia Gallery, London 2009 Naked Eye Gallery, Hove 2009 Northcote Gallery, London 2008 Northcote Gallery,London 2007 Northcote Gallery, London 2006 Northcote Gallery, London 2001 – 2015 Open Studio - Brighton Festival
Corporate Collections & Commissions Candy & Candy, London CB Hillier Parker, London Coxbridge Enterprise Centre, Farnham, Surrey L.A. Animal Services, Los Angeles Mar-Con Group, Finland McCann Relationship Marketing, New York Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, London Sankyo Seiko Co Ltd, Hong Kong.
Selected Group Exhibitions 2015 2015 2015 2015 2015 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2012 2012
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Royal West of England Academy, Bristol Discerning Eye Exhibition Mall Galleries, London Royal Academy ‘Summer Exhibition’, London Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize Mall Galleries, London Belgravia Gallery, London Discerning Eye, Mail Galleries, London Royal West of England Academy (RWA) - Bristol Dulwich Picture Gallery, ‘60th Open’, London Royal Academy ‘Summer Exhibition’, London Wall Projects, Montrose, Scotland Royal Cambrian Academy, Conwy, N.Wales Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland Royal West of England Academy, Bristol Discerning Eye, Mail Galleries, London Denise Yapp Contemporary Art, Monmouth Belgravia Gallery, London Medici Gallery, London Belgravia Gallery, London
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Royal West of England Academy, Bristol Hadfield Fine Art Josie Eastwood Fine Art, Winchester McAllister Thomas Fine Art, Godalming Royal Institute of Oil Painters, London Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, Birmingham Royal West of England Academy, Bristol Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London Royal Academy ‘Summer Exhibition’, London Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London Belgravia Gallery, London Belgravia Gallery, London Belgravia Gallery, London Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London Northcote Gallery, London Northcote Gallery, London Northcote Gallery, London Northcote Gallery, London
Nesting oil on Fabriano paper 56 x 77cm (not part of this exhibition, this painting has been selected for Royal West of England Academy Open Exhibition October - November 2015)
back cover: Streaming oil on Fabriano paper 56 x 77cm
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4 Bartlett Street Bath BA1 2QZ Mon - Sat 10am - 6pm (Wed 2pm - 6pm) 01225 460189
www.davidsimoncontemporary.com