The Jetty Gallery
Morag Lloyds
Morag Lloyds, a Scottish artist, initially trained as an illustrator and designer, she then went on to study fine art.
She first worked as a designer in the 1980s with Alfred Marks in London.
Morag has worked with many organizations. She has also enjoyed working with art in health care.
For several years she worked as a lecturer in community education for FVC and Artlink Central.
Now an established painter, her work encompasses a wide range of subject matter. She works mostly in acrylics but has also been known to work in textiles and other media.
Her work hangs in many private collections throughout Europe, the USA, and Australia.
She trained at Colleges both in England and Scotland studying Illustration and fine art, Morag paints full time from her studio in central Scotland and exhibits her work with Galleries around the UK.
Her work is inspired by her memories and sketchbooks from 20 years of sailing with family around the Scottish Islands exploring hard to reach places and old coastal settlements. Morag often refers back to these sketchbooks and as she says happy memories and moments in time. Her love of the sea, the islands, coastal hideaways and rich history, the marks in the Kilmartin landscape left by those that have gone before, the wildlife and the total peace she feels in these places are part of what she wants to share and convey. Being close to nature away from the busy noise of modern life remembering how precious and beautiful this world is, is what inspires her work. These days she is still exploring the islands but by ferry and car.
In 2024 Morag was awarded a VACMA grant to help with the costs of learning jewellery skills at the Central Scotland School of Jewellery and has been attending classes all year. She is now learning etching skills which she uses with text and then etching these words into copper plates she cuts segments from the plates and combines these with textiles. The finished pieces look like standing stones sitting in the landscape telling the very stories that come from this ancient place. Alongside the copper pieces she is developing texture pieces in silver and combining textiles reflecting the coastal landscape here.