Lockdown Lemurs

Here's some more lemur art I've done this year while on lockdown.

Sifaka Shadowbox

Just thought I'd update this with some more recent artwork. Here's the Sifaka box I made for the 2019 Tate Staff Inside Job exhibition.

The Lemur Tree

New painting to go on display at Tate Modern

The Lemur Tree, 2018

poster paint and pen on canvas

Five years after my trip to Madagascar and I am still painting lemurs. My latest painting, The Lemur Tree, will go on display at Tate Modern (where I am lucky enough to work) in the inaugural staff exhibition which is open to the public on Saturday the 7th and Sunday the 8th of April 2018. To see it for yourself come along that weekend to Level 6 in the Blavatnik Building at Tate Modern. It's free entry, open all weekend (until 10pm on Saturday) and there will be lots of great art on display from my Tate colleagues from all departments and sites.

This painting brings together twelve species of lemurs (of the 100+ that exist), from different regions of Madagascar (ring-tailed, indri, sifaka, aye-aye, brown lemur, red ruffed, black and white ruffed, sportive lemur, bamboo lemur, wooly lemur, mouse lemur and fat-tailed dwarf lemur). Other indigenous wildlife seen here include a predatory fossa, a chameleon and a gecko as well as birds: a hoopoe and a red-tailed newtonia. The tree is a stylised version of the endemic tapia tree, with baobab trees on the horizon. There's more flora and fauna in the grass which is composed of tiny doodles.

If you want to see some of my previous paintings, they are all on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/lloydellis

Me and a friend in Madagascar...

More pictures here:
Madagascar - Part 1 - Fort Dauphin, Lanirano and Nahampoana,
Madagascar - Part 2 - Sainte Luce,
Madagascar - Part 3 - Berenty and the Spiny Forest,
Madagascar - Part 4 - Antanarivo and Andasibe

The Streets of Madagascar

The Kids of Sainte Luce

I'm back!

After 5 wonderful weeks in Madagascar I am finally back in London and will be updating these pages with photos and reports very soon... watch this space!

Only two days to go!

Not long to go now...

It's just over a week before I depart for Madagascar, and I am already all packed and ready but am sure I have forgotten something! I'd like to thank those of you who have supported my charitable fundraising and for those who have been asking what I will be doing there... here'a as succinct an answer as I can muster.

I will be working with Azafady on their volunteer conservation programme for what I am sure will be a frustratingly short four weeks but which I am hoping will make a difference. I will be participating in the lemur and Biodiversity Research as well as working with some community conservation projects.

There's a bit about the module here: http://www.madagascar.co.uk/get-involved/sainte-luce-lemur-biodiversity-research.htm

and some nice photos on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.15228925006.40422.610700006&type=1

I will be sharing all my adventures and photos with you on my return and now just can't wait to get out there.

If you still want to support this mission then please donate to my Paypal whatever you can spare and I will send you a lovely lemur print of one of my paintings. http://lloydloveslemurs.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/lemur-prints-available-to-order.html