James Lloyd sold Medium Details: Caplain gold &

Medium Details: Caplain gold & ink on paper

A real creative force

A proponent both as a critic and painter of the American realist school he must have enjoyed the irony of winning second prize to Picasso’s first at the Carnegie Institute’s International Exhibition of Modern Painting in 1930

It sparks all manner of Hiraeth for me as although I live in a particularly verdant Welsh county

Described as the ‘Grandfather of British illustration’ (thank you Chris Beetles) his economy of line was said to have modernised his trade and certainly influenced the next generation of cartoonists from Frank Reynolds to David Low

James Lloyd sold Medium Details: Caplain gold &"The first piece I saw by James was his portrait of Paul Smith in the National Portrait Gallery. It is a masterpiece. I particularly admire his attention to composition and the under standing of where the viewers eye needs to be led."