Raised in Connecticut, Adèle F. Lloyd moved to California for it's particular type of landscape painting possibilities. Prior to the move, she had been primarily absorbed in portrait commissions in oil.
Adèle's formal art training began at the Rhode Island School of Design, where she was one of six honor students of her class. She furthered her life long goal of continually learning by studying under Hans Hoffman, Sergai Bongart, William E Reese, Everett Raymond Kinstler, Daniel Greene, John Howard Sanden, Harley Brown and Albert Handell.
Adèle's work has been in many juried shows. Her work has been exhibited in the Frye Art Museum of Seattle Washington, the Bellevue, WA Art Museum, and the Salmagundi Club in NYC, and is included in many private collections. She was commissioned to paint the portrait of a past American Ambassador to England, the late Walter S. Gifford, for the embassy in London; the Reverend Theodore Wuggazer; and the former President of the American Marine Bank of Bainbridge Island, WA, among others. She was a finalist in a competition sponsored by American Artist Magazine, and has received other awards through the years.
She is a member of the American Society of Portrait Artists, the Oil Painters of America, the Pastel Society of America, the Pastel Society Of The West Coast, the Plein Air Painters Of Washington, Allied Artists of America and a Signature Member/Master Pastelist of the Pastel Society of the The West Coast.