Alice Pulvers

Alice was born in Tokyo, Japan and grew up in both Tokyo and Kyoto with her two younger sisters, also artists, and her older brother. She was educated in Japanese schools until she moved to Sydney in 2000 and is bilingual and bicultural in Japanese and English. Alice began drawing and painting from an early age. When Alice was 15, she travelled to Paris, and the art she saw there made a strong and lasting impression on her. This experience and her other travels have influenced her development as an artist. Alice has studied life-drawing and has taken courses at the Julian Ashton Art School and at College of Fine Art in Sydney.

Alice exhibits her paintings regularly, often with her sisters, and has been a finalist in numerous art prizes including the Portia Geach Art Prize, the Mosman Art Prize, the Kilgour Prize, the Ravenswood Art Prize and the National Capital Art Prize. Alice was also a finalist in the Mandorla Art Prize in WA.  Alice has been a semi-finalist five times in the national Doug Moran Portraiture and in the prestigious BP Portraiture Prize in London.

Alice paints in gouache on paper and in oils. Alice’s work strongly reflects, in colour and composition, her life in Japan, surrounded by traditional and contemporary Japanese art. Alice is interested in portrait painting and accepts commissions. Alice also paints animal subjects and is very interested in landscape and architectural subjects.