Born in Washington, DC of British diplomatic parents, Virginia Lloyd-Davies and her husband Dennis DiVito moved from Scotland to the Shenandoah Valley in VA in 1986. A Chinese brush artist since 1976, she has paintings in private collections in the U.S, China, Britain, Europe, Japan and Kenya. Her teacher was Chinese Master Painter I-Hsiung Ju, with whom she traveled regularly to China & Taiwan. Virginia has been a U.S. citizen since 2002.
Performances, Demonstrations and Exhibitions - a selection:
US Embassies & Ambassador's Residences in Kenya and Guatemala
Zhang-Jia-Jie People's Hospital & Wuxi Academy of Art, China
Demonstrations for Chinese master artists in Beijing, Shanghai, Amoy University and Jiang Yin, China, 1993, 2004, 2006, 2010
Millennium Gate Museum, Atlanta, GA, USA 2015
Chinese Community Association, London, England 2015
London Brush Painters Association, England 2015
Washington & Lee University, USA 1998, 2002, 2003, 2013
Virginia Military Institute, USA 2012, 2013
Southern Virginia University, USA 2012
Center for Peace Studies, VA Tech, Blacksburg, VA 2011, 2012
Open Center, SoHo, NYC & Medical College of VA, Richmond, VA 1992
Lyndon House Arts Center, Athens, GA 2010
DC Chapter of the Sumi-e Society 2011, 2015, Central VA Watercolor Guild 2013
Westminster Canterbury of the Blue Ridge Retirement Community 2013; Kendal at Lexington 2014/2015
Joyful Brush® performances for American Heart Association Annual Convention, Dallas TX 1998
Hospice Capital Chapter Annual Convention 2003 & 2004
Demonstrations at the Lincoln Center Arts Festival, NYC 1994-5-6
Special Christmas ornament commissioned by Hillary Clinton for The White House tree 1993
Artist featured in The Best of Silk Painting ed. Tuckman & Janas, North Light Books 1997
PBS-TV live performances with Josh Harvey 2000-2007; Beijing National TV, China 1993 & 2001, Jiang Yin TV, China 2006, 2010; NBC-TV news interview, NYC 1995; Joy Philbin interview and demonstration for Haven (CBS-TV) 1996; artist featured painting in Jay Leno TV commercial 1994; FOX-TV Morning News interview & demonstration, NYC 1998.
DVDs: Autumn Waterfall (2015), How to Paint Peonies (2012) and Joyful Brush® Performance with Josh Harvey (1998)
Virginia's YouTube painting channel goes up 1,500 views every 24 hours and has already been viewed over 2 million times round the world.
Ms. Lloyd-Davies is also an accomplished singer, actor and puppeteer and has performed as a soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Buffalo Symphony and the Long Island Symphony. She has appeared on radio and television in the U.S., China and Britain and has written articles for The New York Post, Ad Astra Magazine, The Traveller and East-West Journal in the U.S., and The Scotsman, The Guardian, The Aberdeen Press & Journal and She Magazine in Britain.
Performances, Demonstrations and Exhibitions - a selection:
US Embassies & Ambassador's Residences in Kenya and Guatemala
Zhang-Jia-Jie People's Hospital & Wuxi Academy of Art, China
Demonstrations for Chinese master artists in Beijing, Shanghai, Amoy University and Jiang Yin, China, 1993, 2004, 2006, 2010
Millennium Gate Museum, Atlanta, GA, USA 2015
Chinese Community Association, London, England 2015
London Brush Painters Association, England 2015
Washington & Lee University, USA 1998, 2002, 2003, 2013
Virginia Military Institute, USA 2012, 2013
Southern Virginia University, USA 2012
Center for Peace Studies, VA Tech, Blacksburg, VA 2011, 2012
Open Center, SoHo, NYC & Medical College of VA, Richmond, VA 1992
Lyndon House Arts Center, Athens, GA 2010
DC Chapter of the Sumi-e Society 2011, 2015, Central VA Watercolor Guild 2013
Westminster Canterbury of the Blue Ridge Retirement Community 2013; Kendal at Lexington 2014/2015
Joyful Brush® performances for American Heart Association Annual Convention, Dallas TX 1998
Hospice Capital Chapter Annual Convention 2003 & 2004
Demonstrations at the Lincoln Center Arts Festival, NYC 1994-5-6
Special Christmas ornament commissioned by Hillary Clinton for The White House tree 1993
Artist featured in The Best of Silk Painting ed. Tuckman & Janas, North Light Books 1997
PBS-TV live performances with Josh Harvey 2000-2007; Beijing National TV, China 1993 & 2001, Jiang Yin TV, China 2006, 2010; NBC-TV news interview, NYC 1995; Joy Philbin interview and demonstration for Haven (CBS-TV) 1996; artist featured painting in Jay Leno TV commercial 1994; FOX-TV Morning News interview & demonstration, NYC 1998.
DVDs: Autumn Waterfall (2015), How to Paint Peonies (2012) and Joyful Brush® Performance with Josh Harvey (1998)
Virginia's YouTube painting channel goes up 1,500 views every 24 hours and has already been viewed over 2 million times round the world.
Ms. Lloyd-Davies is also an accomplished singer, actor and puppeteer and has performed as a soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Buffalo Symphony and the Long Island Symphony. She has appeared on radio and television in the U.S., China and Britain and has written articles for The New York Post, Ad Astra Magazine, The Traveller and East-West Journal in the U.S., and The Scotsman, The Guardian, The Aberdeen Press & Journal and She Magazine in Britain.