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I met Lloyd a few years ago and have been lucky enough to spend some time recording audio interviews and making some paintings and drawings in his workshop, where his radiator-repair business has been based now for over forty years.  At the age of eighty-five, Lloyd is still working and bringing his knowledge, experience and skill to repairing car radiators, usually concluding his working day at 3pm.  I've been working on a series of portrait studies of Lloyd and aim to bring the paintings and drawings together to be accompanied by some of the audio recordings.  Lloyd is a real inspiration, with such an eventful and long working life; he has so many brilliant stories and memories to tell.

Below is a short clip of Lloyd speaking about how a chance occurrence that happened on a building site he was working on in London in the 1960s turned out to be a fortuitous change of fortune, giving him an opportunity to demonstrate his skill with welding - one of the trades he had learnt growing up in Jamaica.

Below are a few of the drawings and paintings I have made of Lloyd (one painting also includes Julie, Lloyd's wife, who works with him in the workshop).  The drawing is made with pastel pencil and the two paintings are watercolour and colour pencil.