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Sea Point Promenade. -
Bakoven Beach. -
Boulders Beach Penguins. -
Kloof Nek Drive. All these illustrations are done in Indian ink on 420 x 297 mm Fabriano Tiepolo paper. -
Cape Point Frenemies. -
Chapman's Peak Point. -
Llandudno Panoramic. -
Simon's Town. -
The Sentinel. -
Noordhoek Beach. -
Lucie de Moyencourt.
PORTRAIT Niel Bekker WORDS Malibongwe Tyilo
Lucie De Moyencourt’s favourite city inspired her to take artistic Sunday drives. Her ink drawings capture the spirit of Cape Town.
Architect turned artist and illustrator Lucie de Moyencourt’s latest show, Sunday Drive, continues her theme of exploring her love of the Cape Peninsula.
“I’ve called the show Sunday Drive because I start at the V&A Waterfront, then travel along the Atlantic Seaboard and all the way around the peninsula to Hout Bay, Chapman’s Peak, Cape Point and Muizenberg,” she says, describing one of Cape Town’s most scenic and popular drives.
When we meet up with her, she’s already been doing the drive regularly, each time taking loads of pictures of iconic scenes along the way, some of which she has already painted.
“I am looking for a spirit of the times, to sort of capture us as South Africans and how we live in cities, almost like the illustrations that are done for newspapers,” she says. Lucie’s Instagram account, with nearly 50 000 dedicated followers, is brimming with topical illustrations that document her experiences, be it the opening of the new Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town or holidays in the country of her birth, France.
Sunday Drive certainly is not the end of her exploration of the Mother City. Lucie was born in Paris but raised in Cape Town, and she says there is still so much more of the city she would love to draw.
“The Cape Flats, Bellville and the Winelands, those are the three areas that I haven’t yet captured; they will definitely be in future exhibitions.”
The Sunday Drive exhibition is now on at Kleinsky’s Delicatessen, Sea Point, Cape Town until April 2018.
