Sarah J. Lloyd
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Sarah J. Lloyd (born 1896) was a Welsh artist known for her landscape paintings.
Biography
Lloyd was born at Laugharne in Carmarthenshire in west Wales and lived in the area throughout her life, with the local landscape being the regular subject of her paintings.{{cite book|author=David Buckman|publisher=Art Dictionaries Ltd|year=2006|title=Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 1, A to L |isbn=0-953260-95-X}}{{cite book|author1=Peter W Jones |author2=Isabel Hitchman |publisher=Gomer Press|year=2015|title=Post War to Post Modern: A Dictionary of Artists in Wales |isbn=978-184851-8766}} Lloyd was largely self-taught as an artist although she did study sewing and fabric work part-time at the Carmarthen College of Art for a period. She mostly exhibited her paintings in Women's Institute, WI, exhibitions both regionally in Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire but also nationally, winning a WI Gold Medal on at least one occasion. Her work also featured in the 1972 Welsh Arts Council touring exhibition, An Alternative Tradition.
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Category:Date of death unknown
Category:20th-century Welsh women artists
Category:20th-century Welsh painters
Category:People from Laugharne
Category:Welsh landscape painters
Category:20th-century British women painters
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