Aly Lloyd (b. 1990) is a British contemporary artist currently working in the Cotswolds, UK. Primarily working in painting, her practice explores the shifting nature of perception and identity through the lens of digital aesthetics and contemporary visual culture. Influenced by popular media, iconography and the psychology of seeing, Lloyd reconstructs resonant visual moments from fashion ephemera, film stills, and nostalgic media into layered compositions marked by bold form and vivid colour. Recurring female figures rendered through abstraction and geometry - often deconstructed, blurred, or dissolving - mirror the experience of memory, internal reflection, and emotional states. Through her shifting compositions, her work explores the complexity of identity in contemporary life, portraying it as fluid, layered, and shaped by internal perception. Working at the edge of form and formlessness, Lloyd’s paintings invite prolonged looking and perceptual ambiguity, as images subtly reassemble depending on perspective, distance, and light. Recurring geometric patterns act as symbolic structures - anchoring composition through repetition, contrast, and creating visual tension, while reflecting her neurodivergent sensitivity to structure and sensory intensity. With a particular interest in the use of light and colour to intensify mood and spatial depth, Lloyd’s palette ranges from kaleidoscopic richness to strict bichromatic restraint or bold juxtapositions of clashing colours. Light is employed as a tool to illuminate, distort, and abstract - often creating dream-like or otherworldly states that unsettle perception and invite deeper reflection. Lloyd’s background in psychology, digital design, and a decade in the fashion industry shapes both the imagery she draws from and the instinctive, layered nature of her methods. Multifaceted and experimental, her process employs self-developed techniques and moves iteratively between digital and analogue media. She often begins with digital manipulation and collage, which she then translates into hand-painted compositions on canvas - though her process remains fluid, often shifting back and forth in an ever-evolving exchange between the digital and the physical. Through this method, she invites reflection on how we perceive, construct, and respond to the imagery that surrounds us, offering a slowed-down, tactile counterpoint to the speed and saturation of digital culture. ​​