About the exhibition

A painter’s life can be a solitary one so I, like many artists before me, enjoy spending time sitting in a favourite café at least once a day to clear my mind and watch the world around me. As a figure painter I never tire of watching people … the way they sit, the way they move and the expressions on their faces. I am also fascinated by hands and the way people arrange and move them whilst in conversation or in repose. I paint in both watercolours and oils. ‘Café Life’ presents a very recent series of oil paintings.

Exhibition dates: 16 August - 31 August

Lucy Pulvers Bio

Lucy was born in Kyoto, Japan and grew up in both Tokyo and Kyoto before moving to Sydney in 2001. In 2014 she was awarded the Thea Proctor Scholarship by the Julian Ashton Art School. Lucy paints in both oils and watercolours. Every year since 2019, her watercolour paintings have been selected for inclusion in the annual Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours exhibit in London. In the 2020 watercolour exhibition, a self-portrait was awarded the ‘President’s Choice Award’. In 2024, she received the 'Anthony J Lester Art Critic Award'.

In April 2025, Lucy was elected to be a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours.

Lucy exhibits regularly and has been a finalist twice in the Portia Geach Portraiture Prize, a finalist in the Mosman Art Prize, a semi-finalist in the BP Portraiture Prize in London and more recently, a finalist in the Blake Prize for religious art in Australia.

In early 2025, Lucy exhibited a work for the first time as part of a group show at the Musonium Gallery in Palm Springs, USA as well as exhibiting in a group show at the West End Art Space in Melbourne.

She is now working towards a group exhibition in November at the &Gallery in Sorrento, Victoria where she will be exhibiting with her two elder sisters, also artists.

Lucy is also working towards group and solo exhibitions in 2026.