Artist’s Blog
Insights, painting techniques and news from my Blue Mountains studio
Painting, Sensuality & Intimacy
Painting is essentially a sensual experience. Like intimacy, creativity requires passion, focus, sustained effort and tenderness.
Freewheeling to Joy
What do we gain when we give up our preconceived plans and goals, to freewheel into being present and curious?
Creating Art & Life in the Danger Zone
Creating art and a rich life involves exposing myself to the possibility of experiencing pain and loss as well as joy. Do you construct a fortress to safeguard your heart, or live courageously in the danger zone?
A Mysterious Alchemy
As I paint, so I am made whole, brought into my truth, my essential self. The pain doesn’t disappear or get masked by a panacea; rather it is given expression, allowed to just be.
Bittersweet Beginnings
Beginnings and especially starting a new painting, are fraught with mixed emotions as explored by Corinne Loxton, Australian landscape artist.
The Roots that Anchor You
It was when I learned to acknowledge the rich tapestry of my heritage - all I had grown up with, the roots that sustained me, gave me life, - that I began to understand my own direction.
Braving The Storm
As you may know I have been scouring the coastline of Sydney and braving the afternoon storms in the Blue Mountains to find subjects to paint over the past few months!
Nature - Beautiful but not Benign
While my landscape paintings are arguably beautiful, they escape the banality of beauty for its own sake. As in my work, you intuitively recognise that nature is not controllable and its beauty is ephemeral.
Painting in a Landscape of Choice
Rather than paint the appearance of the landscape, when I paint en plein air, I attempt instead to evoke the mysterious and transitory experience of being immersed in my surroundings.
Out of the Mouths of 'Babes'
A car conversation with my 14-year-old that reminded me to keep working without fear of failure.
Nature, Painting and Spirit...
Nature plays a large role in the 'narratives' explored on my canvases. It is through connecting with nature that I experience spiritual and physical awareness and renewal.
How I Learned to be Creative
My Gran taught me to see the world with the eyes of an artist. Now I feel her loss keenly, as I notice what she taught me.