Sunday Afternoon

In this luminous coastal landscape, Lizzy Simunovic captures the vitality and atmosphere of shoreline light through expressive, gestural brushwork and a high-key chromatic palette. A windswept eucalyptus dominates the foreground, its pale trunk rendered in confident vertical strokes that anchor the composition while framing the curving sweep of beach and sea beyond.

The painting is structured through dynamic diagonals: the arc of the shoreline pulls the eye into the middle distance, where deep ultramarine headlands meet a restless turquoise ocean. Layers of saturated greens and cobalt blues in the foliage contrast with passages of luminous yellow and soft peach in the sky, suggesting the transitional glow of late afternoon. Thick, tactile applications of paint—visible in the impasto highlights along the sand and water—create a palpable sense of movement, as if the breeze shaping the tree is also stirring the surface of the canvas.

Simunovic’s approach balances immediacy with compositional control. The interplay of cool maritime blues and sunlit golds evokes both the physical sensation and emotional resonance of the Australian coast—at once expansive, intimate, and alive with shifting light.