Lloyd Lindley with one of his art pieces.
Manzanita resident enjoys the arti st’s life
BY JANAE EASLON
Manzanita-based artist Lloyd Lindley is
a lifetime creative. Since grade school, you
could fi nd him painting and taking inspira-
tion from the world around him.
He recently curated the Cannon Beach
Art Association’s exhibit, “Palette and Kiln,”
which featured 2-D work and 3-D artists’
ceramics from potters of Hoffman Center for
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the Arts in Manzanita.
Before residing on the North Coast, Lind-
ley spent his career as a landscape archi-
tect focusing on urban design in the Portland
metro area. He graduated from the Uni-
versity of Oregon, where he also taught. In
2005, Lindley became a Fellow in the Amer-
ican Society of Landscape Architects. He
spent the majority of his tenure in Portland as
a project architect and designer for the MLK
Viaduct project on Pacifi c Highway, com-
pleted in 2011.
“That was a big project for me,” he said.
“When it was done, I looked across the desk
to my wife, and said, ‘Want to retire?’ and
we closed our offi ce,” Lindley said. “I had
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been doing artwork during that time and I
had never given it up. It was a way to relieve
stress from the design world … That stuff
can really build up on you. Painting was a
real escape from all of that.”
Since moving to the North Coast a decade
ago, Lindley’s retirement is fi lled with his art.
He has always been inspired by surrealism,
an art movement about “activating the
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