Capertee Landscape Painting Retreat

Capertee Landscape Painting Retreat with Blue Mountains Artist Corinne Loxton

Join us for a relaxing and inspiring landscape painting retreat in beautiful Glen Davis, NSW, Australia. Immerse yourself in the stunning natural surroundings as you unleash your creativity on canvas. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced artist, this retreat offers a unique opportunity to learn and grow in a supportive and picturesque environment.

Capertee is an ancient valley west of the Blue Mountains and 70 km north of Lithgow. A dramatic mountain range surrounds the floodplain valley, affording wonderful views of the sandstone rockfaces and ridges.

Blue Mountains artist, Corinne Loxton, spent two weeks plein air painting in the Capertee Valley in 2023 and loved it so much she wants to go back and take you with her! You can check out her paintings from that trip in her Realms and Ranges series.

Apart from developing skills and confidence painting the landscape, with Corinne's relaxed and encouraging guidance, you can explore new friendships, your surroundings and the experience of disconnecting from everyday life. There will be plenty of time to rest, meditate, journal, bushwalk or just curl up with a great book.

What’s included?

• 7 Painting tutorials on aspects of painting plein air
• 3 Painting boards, each 9 x 5 “
• Private feedback sessions
• 2 Guided bushwalks
• 2 Guided meditation sessions
• 2 Yoga sessions
• Delicious morning & afternoon teas each day
• Lunch on Saturday and Sunday (dietary needs catered for)

Art Materials

BYO or Hire equipment

Art kits, including acrylic or oil paints and a portable painting easel, can be hired.

Payment Options

Pay in full - If before 1 June 2024, select the Early Bird rate

Pay in 4 Monthly or Bi-monthly Instalments (Contact Corinne via her website)

The Gold...

This retreat invites reflection, movement and connection so that you feel re-energised and grounded to access your creativity. Corinne will model and guide you in practices to access with your creative flow reliably and with ease. You can listen to Corinne speak at TEDx Katoomba in 2023, on 'Connecting with Creative Flow' - where she shares images and personal stories, exploring creativity and the nature of artistic flow.

About Corinne Loxton

Corinne Loxton works and lives in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney. An artist all her adult life, she has been preoccupied with landscape for most of the 30 years she has been practising. Having grown up at the foot of Table Mountain in Cape Town, South Africa and spending many childhood hours on or around water, seatop cliffs and mountains, Corinne identified with nature from a young age. In the tradition of the Northern Romantics, she has always regarded her landscape paintings as reflections of human emotions, of experiences imbued with spiritual and emotional significance.

The Loxton family migrated to Australia in the late 80s and at 15, Corinne found herself thrust into a culture and environment that felt alien and uncomfortable. Once she had completed school in Brisbane, she eagerly took up a Bachelor of Visual Arts at the Canberra School of Arts, ANU. Here she was able to further her interest in both painting and printmaking under the tutelage of fine contemporary artists and teachers, such as Mandy Martin, Robert Boynes and Ruth Waller.

About Corinne Loxton’s Painting Process

Corinne Loxton’s paintings are inspired by many hours spent wandering and paying attention to nature - the colours, textures, light and shadow of her local landscape in the Blue Mountains and other places she visits. Not simply an empirical study of nature’s phenomena, her paintings evoke nature’s processes of transformation and renewal, embodying complex narratives of life - the balance and paradox of pain and pleasure, love and loss.

Corinne writes, “I experience mountains as places of intimate spiritual communion. They literally 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 down into the valleys to discover its secrets while transporting me into mystical places.”

For the past 30 years Corinne has been painting ethereal land and sky scapes. As well as working in her Blue Mountains studio, Corinne has worked directly from nature, in many locations around Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Corinne’s technique varies considerably, depending on whether she is painting ‘alla prima’ en plein air or in the studio. The smaller works made outdoors are created with an immediacy and spontaneity necessitated by working directly from the subject, to capture the ever-changing effects of light and colour. In contrast, the studio paintings that still reflect Corinne’s preoccupation with beauty and her sense of wonder at the majesty of nature, are developed using many layers of transparent paint to develop the complexity of colour and feeling in each work.

If you are unsure if this retreat is a fit for you, please contact me with your questions, I'd love to chat with you!