A certain eight-year-old in the inner Mountainfilm circle called C. Lloyd Dallet’s paintings “pretty.” And the kid is right. Time and again, Lloyd manages to mix a variety of disparate styles, subjects and textures to create a painting that works beautifully. Often this takes the form of little pieces—almost a puzzle—that come together in a whole piece. This Santa Barbara-based painter depicts birds, flowers, food—really whatever moves her—and the result always moves us.