Ivan Lloyd

Ivan Lloyd began his career as a layout artist for a large American advertising agency in London. During the sixties, he travelled around the Mediterranean and lived among the people of North Africa, the Middle East and India studying the Art and culture of the regions. Eventually he settled in Tangiers an International city with a thriving black market and a reputation as a center of bohemian culture. There he studied Islamic Art and Arabic calligraphy for several years under a special provision granted to foreign artists by the Sultan of Morocco.

He came to America in 1972 as the artist in residence for the Southern Arizona Light Opera Co. and for several years worked in close collaboration with the origional set designers of ‘The Wizard of Oz’ and ‘My Fair Lady’ creating numerous stage sets for theaters around the country. Between seasons he designed ‘Haunted Mansions’ for charitable organizations in Scottsdale, Las Vegas and Atlanta.

Ivan Lloyd’s paintings showcasing Arabian horses in their natural environment have been featured in many prominent magazines and equestrian publications including Arabian Horse World, The Fine Arts Magazine, Equine Images and The Art of the Horse.

Lloyd’s work adorns the walls of many prestigious collections and in 1992 he was commissioned to document the “Heroic Age” of the Baha’i Faith. Several of his large oil paintings, portraying the early history of the faith, are on permanent display at the Desert Rose Institute in Eloy Arizona. He has written and illustrated three books on the history of the early believers in Persia which have been published in English and translated into Farsi.