Art and Poetry

Christopher Lloyd, Sir Timothy Ackroyd & Sue Lawley

Introduction by Christopher Briscoe

Christopher Lloyd CVO was Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures for the Royal Collection, and latterly on the Board of Trustees of the Art Fund and President of NADFAS.

He will be accompanied by Sir Timothy Ackroyd, West End actor, director, poet and illustrator, who has lately given readings of Saki, Dickens, Gogol and M.R.James, and our Honorary President, Sue Lawley, who is well-known from her radio and television work – including chairing the annual Reith lecture series for the past five years.

Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival Appearance
N.B. All dates / times are provisional and subject to final confirmation

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Christopher Lloyd CVO
From 1988 to 2005 Christopher Lloyd was Surveyor of The Queen’s Pictures, with responsibility for 7,000 paintings and 3,000 miniatures distributed throughout all the historical royal palaces and the royal residences.

Prior to that he worked for twenty years within the Department of Western Art at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, combining curatorial duties with university teaching. His principal areas of expertise are the Italian Renaissance and French Impressionism.

He has published widely, curated several national and international exhibitions and lectured frequently in Britain and the USA.

He is President of the National Association of Decorative and Fine Arts Societies, a Trustee of the Art Fund, a Governor of Gainsborough’s House, and a Trustee of the Living Paintings Trust (aiding the visually impaired).

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Sir Timothy Ackroyd
Sir Timothy Ackroyd’s acting career began in 1976 when he was nominated as Most Promising Newcomer in the West End Theatre Awards for this performance as Clytemnestra in Aeschylu’s ‘Agamemnon’.

His London début was in Brian Forbes’ controversial and hugely successful Macbeth at The Old Vic; his West End debut was starring opposite Peter O’Toole and Joyce Carey as Ricki-Ticki-Tavy in George Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman. Other appearances in the West End include closing down the long-running farce ‘No Sex Please, We’re British’, ‘Pygmalion’ with John Thaw, ‘The Rivals’ playing Sir Anthony Absolute and ‘Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell’ which he played beside Peter O’Toole and Tom Conti.

He has directed three plays in London, Iphigenia at Aulis by Euripides, Red Lanterns by Alecos Galanos, adapted by Costas Charalambos Costa and Les Parents Terribles designed by Tracy Emin. He has also served as a National Theatre player and appeared in weekly repertory across the country.

Sir Timothy has performed his one man show A Step Out of Time to both public and private audiences internationally.