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Reflecting on nature
FRANKSTON South artist Lulu Clifton-Evans, who runs Mornington Peninsula Painting and Drawing Group and often focusses on the peninsula in her work, has won first prize in the VAS Maritime Exhibition 2023 with her oil painting, Reflections of Noumea.
“When a ship is in port it is overwhelmingly scaled in its magnificent structure to dwarf almost everything and anything in its midst. At sea however, in the vastness of the ocean, the same ship becomes something else, almost delicate, made to appear small and yet, still beautifully significant,” art judge Andrea Fleming said. Reflections on the power of nature are a common theme in Clifton-Evans’ work.
The former journalist’s oil paintings have been described as “a meditation on the beauty of the natural world”, often featuring on the beauty of everyday life in nature and the peninsula’s surf coast.
Clifton-Evans said she was looking for more people for the Tuesday life drawing art sessions she runs at Currawong Community Hall, Mornington – one in the morning and another in the afternoon.
