Exhibitions & Events
New Exhibition - Falling Upwards
Recent Landscapes by Corinne Loxton
Stella Downer Fine Art Gallery
3 - 28 March 2026
Opening - Saturday 7 March, 3 - 5 pm
Gallery Hours: Tues - Fri 10 am - 5 pm,
Sat 11 am - 5 pm
1/24 Wellington St, Waterloo, NSW 2017
Image: Falling Upwards IV, oil on canvas, 122 x 91.5 cm
Past Exhibitions and Events
On Sacred Ground
Paintings of the MacDonnell Ranges and the Blue Mountains
Braemar Gallery
5 June - 6 July 2025
Selected as a Finalist in the 2025 Muswellbrook Art Prize, this large contemporary Australian landscape painting of outback mountains in the MacDonnell Ranges is the perfect statement artwork for a modern Australian home or office. It was created in my Blue Mountains studio and has been exhibited in galleries across New South Wales.
In 2024, I travelled to Central Australia to paint and explore my spiritual connection and relationship with the landscape at the centre of this ancient country. The desert landforms and space confronted me with my limits and ultimately, my finiteness. I felt drawn to deep gorge shadows, ghost gums standing serenely in creek beds and the outback’s wide sky. At night, I began to dream in brush marks of burnt sienna, magenta, cobalt blue, umber and indigo. Then, strangely, I began to dream that I embodied the mountain range, that my body formed the bluffs and valleys of the ranges, that I was the mountain, and it was me. This soulful, spiritual painting was made in response to these mystical dreams.
Medium: Oil paint on stretched canvas, ready to hang
Location featured in the Painting: Ormiston Gorge, West MacDonnell Ranges, Central Australia
Genre: Contemporary Australian Landscape Art, Spiritual Landscape Painting
Style: This landscape painting appears to employ a realistic style, however, it is imbued with spiritual and emotive meaning and stories, making it characteristic of the Romantic style of landscape painting.
Subject: Desert Mountain Range of my Dreams
Colour Scheme: Blue (ultramarine, cobalt), Red Ochre, Burnt Sienna, Yellow Ochre, Burnt Umber, Flinders Violet
Features: This painting offers a glimpse into my soul, imagination, and the sublime beauty of the desert landscape in the Australian outback. It depicts a dramatic gorge and bare mountain range, with a cobalt blue, cloudless sky beyond. Gestural brushmarks suggest the rocky landforms and mountain bluffs. A valley in dark shadow invites the viewer deep into this iconic landscape of my spirit and dreams. The heat haze on the receding mountain range is typical of outback desert environments, yet the image transcends Realism or Impressionism. Rather, the landscape evokes spiritual and emotional meaning and stories.
Contact Corinne to arrange to view this painting in your home ph 0432 922 653
Slumbering Self, 2024, oil on canvas, 91.5 x 152 cm
Artist Talk and Painting Demonstration
Sunday 29 June, 1 - 3 pm at Braemar Gallery
Join me for an artist talk that explores the concepts and methods of my work on display. Learn about how I approach painting in the studio and outdoors, as I demonstrate the skills and techniques of landscape oil painting. This event is free, but numbers are limited.
Sunlit Face, Emily Gap, 2024, oil on board, 30 x 60 cm
Passage, Wiggley's Waterhole, Alice Springs, 2024, oil on board, 30 x 60 cm
The Exhibition, On Sacred Ground, presents plein-air paintings made during a residency in the Red Centre and larger studio paintings. The works invite urban audiences to consider the desert’s mystical, sacred and environmental importance. The Red Centre holds a unique position in the psyche and mythology of all Australians. These paintings enable you to journey with me as I connect with nature and explore the majesty and extremes of the desert.
This outback painting depicts the iconic white trunks of sapling ghost gums set against the burnt sienna earth tones of a rock wall. Their forms are reflected clearly in the still creek beneath the rock face. It is a contemplative contemporary Australian landscape painting that invites the viewer to pause (with the trees) and reflect on the beauty and sublimity of the desert landscape.
The experience of being in this creek bed at Ormiston Gorge felt like a gift — when I saw the shapes and colours of the trees and how they stood before the rock face, I instantly wanted to capture the moment in paint.
Medium: Oil paint on a professional artist-quality plywood panel, framed in Tasmanian Oak and ready to hang
Location featured in the Painting: Ormiston Gorge, West MacDonnell Ranges, Central Australia
Genre: Contemporary Australian Landscape Art, Plein Air Landscape Painting
Style: Plein air landscape paintings are created outdoors, capturing natural light and the changing atmosphere. This technique results in expressive, dynamic brushwork that conveys spontaneity and a strong connection to nature, reflecting the artist’s direct experience of the landscape.
Subject: Rock wall and ghost gums in the outback of Australia
Colour Scheme: Yellow Ochre, Burnt Umber, Burnt Sienna, Australian leaf Green, White
Features: This original oil painting of Ormiston Gorge in Central Australia evokes peace and stillness. The warm red-brown of the rock wall is inviting, and the white ghost gum trunks create a strong contrast in both colour and shape with the rocks behind. The composition is modern in character and style, and the brushwork is distinct, yet considered. It captures the essence of the Australian outback.
Contact Corinne to arrange to view this painting in your home, phone 0432 922 653
Standing Still, 2024, oil on board, 30 x 60 cm
Evoking the Elements
A Synergy of Music and Paintings by Pianist Elyane Laussade and Artist Corinne Loxton
Lassaude Studio, Melbourne
12 - 20 October 2024
This contemporary Australian landscape painting interprets the piano composition Automne by Cécile Chaminade. Chaminade’s piece begins with a slow, gentle tempo, transporting the listener into a world of cool Autumn skies—the season of rest and restoration.
Autumn is a time of harvest, when small animals retreat, trees shed to survive, and nature prepares for the harshness of Winter. This painting evokes the transitional mood of Automne’s beginning and final sections, with atmospheric clouds drifting above a horizon of bare trees and dry paddocks.
Medium: Oil paint on plywood, framed in Italian timber, ready to hang
Musical Composition that prompted the Painting: Automne by Cécile Chaminade
Genre: Contemporary Australian Landscape Painting, Alla Prima Landscape
Style:While this landscape painting adopts a realistic style, it is deeply infused with spiritual and emotive meaning, aligning it with the Romantic tradition of landscape art. Created using the alla prima technique — painting directly in a single sitting — it was completed wet-on-wet to preserve the spontaneity and immediacy of each brushstroke. The work was painted in response to Automne by Cécile Chaminade, allowing the music to guide the emotional tone and compositional rhythm of the piece.
Subject: Dramatic clouds over bare Autumn trees
Colour Scheme: Indigo blue, burnt sienna, Yellow ochre, Umber, Grey and Black
Features: The moody sky and bare branches in this original oil painting capture the approaching chill of Winter. The dry paddocks guide the viewer’s gaze into the landscape, while the delicate network of twigs and branches draws the eye inward and upward, inviting quiet reflection and a sense of seasonal stillness.
Contact Corinne to arrange to view this painting in your home ph 0432 922 653
Autumn II, after Chaminade, 2024, oil on board, 22 x 30 cm
“Wonderful ephemeral study of clouds and the elements, coupled with gorgeous music”
Colours of the Country
Landscape Paintings by Corinne Loxton and Owen Thompson
Everglades House and Garden Gallery
7 - 28 Sept 2024
This quintessential contemporary Australian landscape painting, created for an exhibition in 2024 at Everglades Gallery, references two of my artistic heroes – Mark Rothko and Caspar David Friedrich, whose art speaks to the soul. Both artists have imparted valuable lessons about drawing the viewer in, as if to the edge of a precipice.
This large, vertical, rectangular painting relates strongly to the size of the human body. Additionally, the cool green-blue in the middle of the clouds evokes a sense of falling into deep space. A dramatic stormy cloud formation towers above the bushland trees in dark silhouette, amplifying the viewer’s experience of being engulfed by nature.
Up close, the gestural brushwork belies the landscape’s realistic appearance. This sky painting suggests the ‘apprehension of the ineffable’, akin to the spiritual paintings of Friedrich and Rothko.
Medium: Oil paint on stretched canvas, ready to hang
Location featured in the Painting: Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia
Genre: Contemporary Australian Landscape Art, Spiritual Landscape Painting
Style: This landscape painting appears to employ a realistic style, however, it is imbued with spiritual and emotive meaning and stories, making it characteristic of the Romantic style of landscape painting.
Subject: Numinous dusk sky, Dramatic clouds, Trees
Colour Scheme: Blue (ultramarine, indigo, pthalo, windsor), Yellow, warm and cool Greys, Burnt Umber, Viridian and Black
Features: A dramatic sunset sky painting, with voluminous clouds towering above a dark horizon of Blue Mountains bush. Yellow-orange light bounces off the base of the clouds, and a deep green-blue space in the centre invites the viewer to dive into the sky.
Contact Corinne to arrange to view this painting in your home, phone 0432 922 653
Late Thursday, 2024, oil on canvas, 152 x 115 cm
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 spiritual encounters in nature.
Corinne speaking at TEDx Katoomba
About Corinne Loxton’s Landscape Paintings
As I walk in the bush each day, with senses wide open, receptive to the wisdom of trees, the call of the rocks and the wind’s murmuring, I receive deep soul-nourishing. Each happening can stir in me a recognition of primaeval stories, of people and spirits connected through the familiar pathways, the trees, birds, and reptiles.
In my work, you will recognise the expansive skies and vistas of the Blue Mountains as well as hidden jewels, like Glenbrook Lagoon. The images invite you ‘in’, to contemplate both the ethereal beauty and mystery of nature and your interior world.
Reflections on glassy water, windswept clouds, rising mist, or stands of trees—all ground us in the present while evoking the untamed and sacred spirit of place.
About Corinne Loxton’s Painting Process
My paintings are inspired by many hours spent wandering and paying attention to nature—the colours, textures, light, and shadow of my local landscape in the Blue Mountains and other places I visit.
Not simply an empirical study of nature’s phenomena, my work seeks to evoke nature’s processes of transformation and renewal, embodying complex narratives of life - the balance and paradox of pain and pleasure, love and loss.
I experience mountains as places of intimate spiritual communion. They lift me, casting my gaze above and beyond, to contemplate an ‘other’ reality—one that transcends and simultaneously inhabits me. Labyrinth-like, the Blue Mountains invite me to delve into the valleys to discover their secrets, while transporting me into mystical places.
For the past 30 years, I have painted ethereal and powerful skies and landscapes. In addition to working in my Blue Mountains studio, I paint directly from nature in many locations around Australia and overseas.
My technique varies considerably, depending on whether I am painting ‘alla prima’ en plein air or in the studio. The smaller works made outdoors are created with immediacy and spontaneity, responding to the ever-changing effects of light and colour.
In contrast, my studio paintings, though still reflecting my preoccupation with beauty and sense of wonder at the majesty of nature, are developed using many layers of transparent paint to build complexity of colour and feeling in each work.
Corinne Loxton’s Background
Growing up at the foot of Table Mountain in Cape Town, South Africa, and spending many childhood hours near water, sea-top cliffs, and mountains, I developed a deep connection with nature from a young age.
In the tradition of the Northern Romantics, I have always regarded my landscape paintings as reflections of human emotions—experiences imbued with spiritual and emotional significance.
The Loxton family migrated to Australia in the late 1980s, and at 15 years old, I found myself thrust into a culture and environment that felt alien and uncomfortable.
After finishing school in Brisbane, I eagerly enrolled in a Bachelor of Visual Arts at the Canberra School of Art, ANU.
There, I was able to nurture my passion for painting and printmaking, studying under the guidance of respected contemporary artists and teachers, including Mandy Martin, Robert Boynes, and Ruth Waller.