Lulu Clifton-Evans - bylulu
A passion for traditional oil painting has resulted in landscapes through to still life and figurative paintings as well as portraits. Lulu focuses on using less toxic solvents with her work featuring handmade paint using pigment sourced from around the world such as lapis lazuli.
Lulu’s work is held in collections in France, England, New Caledonia and New Zealand.
She featured in the Fairfax media - Sydney Morning Herald/The Age throughout Australia for her portrait of a scientist called Hans Brunner who helped exonerate Lindy Chamberlain. She has also featured in numerous local media articles.
Link:
https://www.theage.com.au/national/thirty-five-years-after-her-acquittal-lindy-chamberlain-creighton-and-a-key-scientist-reunite-20231023-p5eeab.html
After helping save two historic 50 year-old organisations she now helps run the Australian Guild of Realist Artists (AGRA) and the Mornington Peninsula Painting and Drawing Group (MPPDG).
The rescue-mission of AGRA has resulted in the creation of a nationwide hardcopy magazine called AGRA Magazine which she edits and is produces. This magazine aims to promote education and excellence in art.
Education
Lulu trained with internationally renown art teacher Colin Johnson for many years as well as Bill Caldwell of the Twenty Melbourne Painters Society and others. She also gained a distinction average in formal training.
She now teaches traditional oil painting at the McClelland Guild of Artists as well as elsewhere.
Recent awards and achievements:
· 2025 Finalist in the Flannagan Art Prize
· 2024 Finalist in the $25,000 Basil Sellers Award
· 2023 Thomas Somerscales Trophy
· 2023 Victorian Artists Society Curator’s Choice Best Panting
· 2023 John Dudley Portrait Prize Finalist
· 2022 Oakhill Gallery Annual Exhibition winner
Member of:
· The Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors
· The Mornington Peninsula Painting and Drawing Group
· The Australian Guild of Realist Artists
· The Victorian Artists Society
· McClelland Guild of Artists
· Peninsula Studio Trail
Works by Lulu Clifton-Evans - bylulu
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