BUDDING artist Desmond Makubuna encouraged students who had a passion for art to enter the Fiji Airways Art Awards after he won top honours last Saturday at the 2016 Film Fiji Kula Awards in Suva.

The final-year Marist Brothers High School student won $1000. Makubuna’s winning piece was among the more than 300 entries received from budding artists of which 42 artwork were shortlisted to decide the nine finalists.

Most Popular Art was awarded to Lomani Rova of Swami Vivekananda College which polled 1104 on the Fiji Airways Facebook page.