Slumbering Self, 2024, oil on canvas, 91.5 x 152 cm
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 of 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
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 of 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
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 of 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
Artwork Specifications
Certification: This artwork is an original contemporary Australian landscape painting, signed and dated on the back by the artist.
Art Gallery Quality Premium Materials:
Art Spectrum and Windsor & Newton oil paints applied over a Matisse Acrylic Gesso
12 oz Cotton Canvas
Art Spectrum Heavy Duty Stretcher Bars with cross bracing
Painting Dimensions: 91.5 cm (h) x 152 cm (w) x 4 cm (d)
How to Install or Hang Your Painting: This landscape painting is large and has strong forms and colours. It suits a modern Australian home or office with clean lines and considered style. As seen in the photos above, both a neutral and coloured wall work as an excellent backdrop to hang the painting.
The Australian gallery standard recommends hanging a painting so that the mid-point of the artwork (height) is approximately 155 cm from the floor. This may vary depending on ceiling height, interior furniture, or whether it is a space where people will be sitting or standing, such as a living room or dining room. It is advisable to avoid hanging oil paintings in direct sunlight, as UV can damage the pigment, resulting in discolouration.
Framing: An original oil painting on stretched canvas of this size and in a contemporary style is often left unframed when installed in art galleries, public or private collections. This work is currently unframed; however, framing can be arranged by agreement. The artwork is ready to hang on Australian gallery standard D-hooks and wire.