The original works can be' viewed noon to 6 p.nl. daily and, during 7:30 p.m. Saturday coffee., houses at the Baha'i Center, 5755`; Rodeo Road, Los Angeles, at tihe comer of La Cienega Boulevard and Rodeo Road. There is no admission fee.
 Lloyd says his works are "nar rative paintings, but they're visionary, too."
 He likes to paint like the old masters and is a stickler for detail. His depictions exemplifyy an almos photog*raphic realism on canvas and he has no doubt, he'11 "go down in the history of art.
 Recently married — his wife, Lystra, is a veterinarian in Tucson— Lloyd said painting is his life. "I don't go back. I don't go on t  vacations. My art is my way of   life."

Staff photo by Karen Hibdon

ON DISPLAY: Ivan Uoyd's art, which reflects the history of the Baha'i faith, is currently being displayed at the Baha'i Center in Los Angeles.

multi-room affairs where he put his imagination to task on graveyard and Dracula's castie scenes.
 In 1986, the artist was drawn to the Baha'i faith. Through a series of events. he found himself undertaking the documentation of the religion and chronicling the "details of the manifestations" of its beginnmgs in the early 1800s.
 His works are enhancements of actual photographs. Among the pieces thus far in the collection are, "The Unfurling of the Black Standard," "The Conference of Badasht" and "Tahirih Teaching Women."
 Lithographs of the brightly hued paintings have been sold to art patrons throughout the world, including Persia. Russia. Chad and Samoa, Lloyd said, noting that the king of Samoa is a Baha'i.
 "I've been offered lots of money for the originals, but 1 decided I want to start a center for the arts," the artist said, adding his recent pilgrimage to display the works has been "a teaching campaign."
 "I have an idea and I work it and work it. 1 may use as many as 50 references for one painting."
 There are currently eiglit paintings in Lloyd's collection; there will be 19 when it is complete.
 

 Intrigued by stories of the Mafia Montessori teachers' training college in Ahmedabad, India, Lloyd next embarked on an overland trek to India. Along the way he observed and documented the architecture and costurnes of Persia and the Middle East, a foundation he would later call upon as heexpiored the roots of the Baha'i religion.
 What had started out to be six months in Paris mushroomed to seven years.
 In 1972, Lloyd did an about face and turned his focus to the United States, where he started working as a scenery painter for a wide variety of stage productions.
 Working from his studio in Tucson, Lloyd said he recruited nu¬merous local artists to help him with the sets of such shows as "Wizard of Oz," "My Fair Lady," "Showboat" and "Destry Rides Again." The sets are rented to theater groups throughout the country.
 While working on the "Oz" stagings, he worked closely with the director of the 1934 motion picture, using original drawings from the movie production as his model.
 His reputation preceding him, Lloyd was also called upon to conjure up and implement plans for mall haunted houses, elaborate
 

By Karen Hibdon
Staff writer

 Bold colors and an authenticity borra of years living in Islamic lands make artist Ivan Lloyd's current collection of paintings a reflection of his life and the faith he has embraced.
 The Tucson, Ariz., resident was recently in Simi Valley giving a whirlwind presentation of his finished works and those in progress to local members of the Baha'i faith. During the evening "fireside chat," the Coventry, England-borra Lloyd displayed lithographs of his originals, which are now on display at the Baha'i Center in Los Angeles.
 Through his Day Spring Studios, Lloyd is documenting the early history of the Baha'i faith. When his exhibit closes Oct. 21 in Los Angeles, it will go back to Tucson and then back on the road during the holidays to other Baha'i centers and conventions. Eventu ally, the works are earnarked for the William Sears Baha'i Center for the Arts to be built near Colorado Springs, Colo.
 Accompanying Lloyd on his visit here was Sears widow, Marguerite Sears, whose son and daughter-in-law, Bill and Mariel Sears, are Simi Valley residents. "I'm very happy we are going to have the originals of the pictures. They are truly magnificent,"
 Marguerite Sears said. Lloyd's road to his current artistic en deavor is paved with adventures the likes of which novels are made from. He attended boarding schools in England and at 18, a finishing degree in econo:nics in hand, landed a job as a layout per-son in an advertising firm.
 A year later, he decided to wend his way to Paris. While hitchhiking, he was invited to go to Greece where he spent months "drawing Greek columns and selling the sketches to tourists in a park."
 Next, he headed for Egypt, falling in love with Alexandria and the mysteries of the Far East. He was "fascinated with the turbans, robes and veils," he said.
 "By this time, my parents had disowned me," Lloyd said. He found his solace in studying Islamic art and the Arabio culture, painting mosques and portraits of the people of a land where he was considered "a heathen."