[4] She was the first woman to work in the drafting room of architect Bertram G. Goodhue and painted her first mural decoration at the age of twenty.

She opened a studio, taught classes and took the role of directorship of the Stickney Memorial Art School in Pasadena.

[6][7][8] Lloyd worked as a muralist and decorator and also produced bookplates, cartoons, logos, water color, charcoal, architectural renderings and stained-glass designs.

She worked with many well-known architectural firms including Howard Hewitt, Marsh, Smith, and Powell, Carleton Monroe Wilson, and the West Coast office of Bertam Goodhue.

"If the client could only be persuaded to put the money he spends, later, on landscapes or genre paintings which do not go with his house, into one good ceiling for over-mantel, which becomes a part of the architecture of his home, he would be better satisfied in the end."

[9] In 1925, her spouse Addison Brown II divorced her and moved with their two-year-old child back to the East Coast.