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John Lloyd putting up his new show<\/p><\/div>\n

The better I get to know John Lloyd, the more I admire him. (True of his wife, Jane Talcott,<\/a> as well, but John\u2019s the one who keeps putting his work up in small solo shows non-stop, anywhere he can find space.) Last weekend, when I drove into the city, he\u2019d recently taken down his work at Salon d\u2019Art<\/a> and was putting it up at a workspace in Tarrytown called W@tercooler<\/a>. So on my drive into Manhattan last week, I detoured up across the Tappen Zee and into Tarrytown, which turned out to be a beautiful little village tucked into the hills just east of the Hudson River. I felt as if I were in Vermont, with school children wandering along the main drag and cars stopping for any pedestrian who wandered across Broadway, which was more or less the northern extension of the same thoroughfare that runs through Times Square.<\/p>\n

John showed up a little early with some last paintings to hang and a few bottles of Two Buck Chuck for the opening reception. He\u2019d sold one small painting for around $350, even before the opening, so already he was a more successful artist than I\u2019ve been the past year, and rather than put up a red dot beside the painting, he took it down and replaced it with one of the new ones he\u2019d lugged in with a shopping bag. He had what appeared to be a couple dozen paintings on view, hung on walls above the heads of people working at their desks\u2014freelancers and self-employed and job seekers who pay to work in the homey communal space, complete with wireless, broadband, a kitchen and an area more like a parlor than an office, with ornate antique couches. In the men\u2019s room were a tidy row of child\u2019s well-executed drawings, mounted behind glass. John\u2019s colorful, intuitive images of scenes from around the city, which he completes in three to four days, mostly en plein air, <\/em>fit perfectly into the feel of the workspace.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>I helped him unpack a little and talked with the owner about the shows she has scheduled\u2014they\u2019ve booked artwork into February. Then we went down to the place next door, Mr. Nick\u2019s, for a beer and sandwich. John pulled out a textbook on Celtic art and showed me some of the work he\u2019s been teaching students in a class he offers at The Open Center. The website describes Celtic work, done with compasses as \u201cendless knots, rhythms of nature, flowing water spirals, and tangled tree roots. In Celtic art there is visual poetry, an interweaving of plant, animal, and human worlds, displaying the interconnectedness of life amidst earth, sea and sky. We will explore these motifs, many drawn from sacred manuscripts, by simple drawing exercises borrowed from the Celtic tradition.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a fascinating form of art, as meditative as a Persian carpet, full of patterns with pagan spiritual roots. John told me, \u201cI think most of these images are some kind of blessing.\u201d His work doesn\u2019t seem to draw inspiration from these sources at all, though. His paintings draw more from a joyful and hedonistic\u2014read, French\u2014sense of spontaneous, vibrant color. He captures impromptu responses to urban landscapes, a mix of architecture, vehicles, parks, streets and walkways, which he often paints from life, in acrylic, so that it will dry before he has to carry the day\u2019s work, along with his supplies and equipment, back to his home in Brooklyn via the subway. It wouldn\u2019t be unusual for him to take the train in to Chelsea, paint a scene of the Hi Line and then ride back, with his dry painting in a backpack.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s so impressive about John is how indefatigable he is at all levels. Depsite being between jobs, he\u2019s constantly producing new work and looking for ways to get it seen. In the past year alone, he has shown is work at a series of alternative spaces: Salon d\u2019Art, W@tercooler<\/a>, TAI, a coffee shop, and two framing shops. He\u2019s also been promoting his work in any way possible on the web: Facebook, Pinterest, and Etsy. He has at least that one sale to show for his efforts, but beyond that he has all the people who have enjoyed having his work around while they get their work done, take a coffee break, or convene for a business conference.<\/p>\n

I agreed with him when he said one thing in particular, as the traffic moved slowly past on that surburban leg of Broadway: \u201cIt\u2019s absolutely irrational to think you can make a living by making art.\u201d<\/p>\n

And yet we keep trying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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