Felix & Spear Gallery is pleased to announce representation of Errol Lloyd

Errol Lloyd (b 1943, Lucea) is a Jamaican-born British artist, writer, and illustrator working across painting, sculpture, and literature. He was educated at Munro College, Jamaica, where he excelled academically and in sport, representing the school in athletics, hockey, gymnastics, football, and debating, serving as Head Boy and gaining distinctions in all A Level art examinations. A formative influence was visiting the studio of African American sculptor Richmond Barthé, who settled in Jamaica in 1948.

Lloyd moved to the UK in 1963 to study law at the Council of Legal Education, during which he produced commissioned bronze portrait busts of figures including C. L. R. James, Sir Garfield Sobers, Richard Small, Lord Pitt, John La Rose, and Linton Kwesi Johnson. His bust of John La Rose was exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery (2004), and his painted portrait of Kamau Brathwaite, commissioned by Pembroke College, Cambridge (2019), is on permanent display in its dining hall.
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He was active in the Caribbean Artists Movement (1966–1972), a key force in Black British art, later designing book covers for Bogle-L’Ouverture Publications, New Beacon Books, and Pearson Longman, and teaching Advanced Painting at Camden Arts Centre (1975–1976).