Ms. Lloyd Childers
Lloyd was born in New Jersey, and lived in Virginia and Ohio before coming to North Carolina in 1956. She earned college degrees from Stephens College, Columbia, Missouri and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Pursuing a lifelong interest in drawing and watercolors, and inspired by artists in her family, Lloyd began painting seriously in the 1980s. She studied with several renowned artists at Sertoma Art Center and Artspace in Raleigh.
Although nature, people, animals and architecture inspire her paintings, Lloyd is particularly interested in capturing the “essence of rural areas and the maritime environment.” Lloyd has exhibited her works at the North Carolina State Fair, Wake Visual Arts and the Wilmington Art Association. Two of her pieces are on permanent display at Somerset Plantation State Historic Site and others are in private collections.
Lloyd is a retired state government grants administrator, and former Currituck Beach Lighthouse Keeper and executive director of the nonprofit organization, Outer Banks Conservationists, Inc. She is focusing her retirement activity on watercolor painting. Her works appear in selected locations on the Outer Banks, Raleigh and Topsail Beach areas of North Carolina.
