Exhibitions
Refraction, oil on board, 50 × 40 cm
Near and Far
Between Invitation and Distance
Everglades Gallery, Leura
29 August - 20 September 2026
Opening: Saturday 29 August, 1 - 3 pm, Gallery Hours: Thurs - Sunday 11 am - 3 pm
Near and Far presents a body of recent landscape paintings developed through sustained engagement with the Blue Mountains and Capertee Valley.
Working between direct observation and studio-based painting, the works explore landscape as a field of perception. The images move between proximity and distance—between immersion and resistance—where atmosphere, memory, and material process shape the experience of place.
The exhibition is accompanied by a studio presence, an artist’s talk, and a plein air gathering, extending the work into process and site.
Falling Upwards
States of Disruption and Recovery
Stella Downer Fine Art Gallery, Sydney
3 - 28 March 2026
Falling Upwards IV, oil on canvas, 122 x 91.5 cm
Falling Upwards explores states of instability and transformation, considering how experiences of disruption and recovery can be held within the material language of painting. The works examine the tension between intimacy and scale, and the ways in which meaning is constructed through lived experience and perceptual change.
Developed through oil painting as a sustained material process, the series focuses on surface, gesture, and atmospheric depth as carriers of shifting internal and external conditions. Landscape becomes a framework through which states of change and continuity are explored.
The works are presented in interior contexts to communicate their spatial presence within lived environments.
On Sacred Ground
Paintings from the MacDonnell Ranges
Braemar Gallery, NSW
5 June - 6 July 2025
Slumbering Self, 2024, oil on canvas, 91.5 x 152 cm
The exhibition On Sacred Ground brought together plein-air works made during a residency in Central Australia with larger studio paintings developed in response to that experience.
The works reflect a sustained engagement with the desert environment of the Red Centre, moving between direct observation on site and subsequent studio-based reconstruction.
Rather than documenting place, the paintings explore how extended time in the landscape reshapes perception—particularly in environments defined by scale, light, and spatial intensity. The Red Centre occupies a significant place in the Australian landscape, both geographically and culturally, and continues to be a site of ongoing artistic engagement.
Into the Desert
Stella Downer Fine Art
19 November – 21 December 2024
Standing Still, 2024, oil on board, 30 x 60 cm
This exhibition presents a series of paintings developed from time spent in Central Australia, focusing on key sites within the MacDonnell Ranges.
The works move between plein-air studies and studio-based resolution, exploring how direct observation is transformed through repetition, memory, and material translation. The desert environment is approached through its spatial conditions—light, distance, and atmospheric compression.
Oil paint is used to articulate shifting relationships between surface and depth, where landscape is experienced as both external terrain and perceptual field.
The exhibition reflects ongoing engagement with the Australian desert as a site of sustained artistic inquiry.
Evoking the Elements
Light, Air and Shifting Ground
In Collaboration with Pianist Elyane Laussade
Melbourne, Castlemaine
12 - 20 October 2024
Mephisto Waltz III, 2024, oil on board, 22 x 30 cm
Evoking the Elements presents a body of landscape paintings developed in dialogue with selected piano compositions, exploring how sound, image, and material process intersect through the elemental forces of air, water, light, and surface.
Grounded in daily observation of the Blue Mountains, the works respond to ongoing processes of change—growth, decay, and renewal—shaped by shifting conditions. Rather than describing fixed views, the paintings translate these experiences into a visual language of gesture, colour, and spatial tension.
Landscapes
Corinne Loxton and Owen Thompson
Everglades Gallery
7 - 28 Sept 2024
Late Thursday, 2024, oil on canvas, 152 x 115 cm
Landscapes was a collaborative exhibition with Blue Mountains artist Owen Thompson, bringing together oil and watercolour responses to the landscape. Loxton’s paintings move between swiftly executed alla prima skies and more densely developed bushland works, exploring contrasts between openness and enclosure, immediacy and duration. Developed through plein air observation across the Blue Mountains and Capertee Valley, the works engage with shifting light, spatial depth, and the viewer’s relationship to place.
Connecting With Creative Flow
TEDx Katoomba
30 June 2023
At TEDx Katoomba I shared images and personal stories, exploring creativity and the nature of artistic flow. I spoke about how my landscapes are imbued with human experiences of joy, hope loss, and longing and in particular, my embodied experience of nature.
About Corinne Loxton’s Paintings and Process
Corinne Loxton’s paintings emerge from sustained engagement with walking and observing the Australian landscape, particularly the Blue Mountains and surrounding environments. These experiences form the basis for a practice grounded in direct observation and prolonged attention to place.
Over time, repeated encounters with specific sites—such as bushland tracks, escarpments, and water systems like Glenbrook Lagoon—inform a process of visual and material translation. Rather than documenting landscape, the works reflect how it is gradually reconstructed through memory, perception, and the act of painting.
Recurring elements such as expansive skies, shifting weather, and dense tree forms are approached as spatial and atmospheric structures rather than symbolic narratives. Through paint, these conditions are explored as fields of light, depth, and movement, where landscape is experienced as both physical terrain and perceptual space.
Lagoon Dreaming, Oil on canvas, 137 x 122cm
Corinne Loxton’s Background
Corinne Loxton grew up in Cape Town, South Africa, at the foot of Table Mountain, where early and regular exposure to coastal and mountainous environments shaped her ongoing interest in landscape.
She migrated to Australia with her family in the late 1980s. At the age of fifteen, this transition brought a significant shift in environment and cultural context, which later informed her engagement with ideas of place and belonging.
After completing secondary school in Brisbane, she studied Visual Arts at the Canberra School of Art, Australian National University. During this period she focused on painting and printmaking, studying with artists including Mandy Martin, Robert Boynes, and Ruth Waller.