Capertee Plein Air Painting Retreat - incl Yoga, Bushwalking, Meditation

Join artist Corinne Loxton for a 4-day plein air painting retreat in the breathtaking Capertee Valley, just north of Lithgow and west of the Blue Mountains, NSW. Surrounded by dramatic sandstone cliffs, ridges, and wide open skies, this is the perfect setting to deepen your art practice or try landscape painting for the first time.

Following sold-out retreats in 2025, we’re excited to return in 2026! Whether you're a beginner or an experienced painter, these art retreats are designed to build your confidence and creativity in a relaxed, supportive, and beautiful environment.

What’s included in the Retreat?

• Painting tutorials on techniques for plein air landscape painting
• Comfortable facilities and beautiful views at our retreat base
• 2 Painting boards or canvases
• Private feedback sessions and guided painting tuition with Corinne Loxton
• Optional yoga, meditation, bushwalking, journaling
• Delicious morning & afternoon teas each day
• Mindfulness practices to support creative flow
• Time to rest, connect with others, and recharge
• Catered lunches from Saturday to Monday
• Optional accommodation at peaceful Capertee Mountainview Retreat with stunning views and access to nature, bird watching, and stargazing.

Build new friendships, in spectacular surroundings, as you disconnect from everyday life. This painting workshop is about more than just developing painting technique – it’s an opportunity to restore your energy, reconnect with nature, and rediscover your creative spark.

Limited places available – book early to secure your spot.

Art Materials

BYO – You will receive a link to a plein air painting equipment list

Portable plein air painting easels – Corinne has several easels available for loan.

Art Kit Hire – $140
A limited number of plein air painting kits are available to hire for $140. If you'd like to reserve one, please indicate this on your booking form. Corinne will confirm availability and send an invoice separately.

Each kit includes:

• Oil or acrylic paints
• Brushes and palette knives
• Palette and solvent
• Jar, paper towels/rags
• Coloured and graphite pencils
• Clips, apron, baby wipes
• Viewfinder

Retreat Accommodation Options

Accommodation costs are not included in your painting retreat fee; however, comfortable, affordable, and character-filled accommodation is available onsite at Capertee Mountain View Retreat, within Bogee Ridge Farm.

You can stay in one of the charming vintage caravans or the 3-bedroom, 2-bathroom farm cottage. Contact Corinne directly at 0432 922 653 or via email to discuss your needs.

Vintage Caravan with a View (4 available)

• $50 per night. Includes comfy DB, private kitchenette, heating & cooling, outdoor seating, shared bathrooms and communal living areas.

Farm Cottage

• QB with Ensuite - $100 per night
• QB, shared bathroom - $90 per night
• DB in Twin-share, shared bathroom - $50 per night
• SB in Twin-share, shared bathroom - $40 per night

To keep accommodation costs low, linen is not provided—please bring your own sheets and towels. If you're unable to do so due to travel or luggage limitations, just send me an email and we’ll arrange an alternative.

Camping

• $25 per night with your own setup, includes access to shared facilities

Prefer to stay elsewhere? Many accommodation options exist in Rylstone and other parts of the Capertee Valley.

Retreat Meals & Shared Contributions

From Saturday to Monday, you’ll be treated to morning tea, lunch, and afternoon tea, all provided with care. Please bring your breakfast supplies and any extra snacks you may want.

To help keep the retreat affordable and rooted in a spirit of community, we invite all participants to take part in light kitchen and farm tasks. This shared effort not only supports the retreat’s smooth running but also creates a sense of connection and collaboration.

Evenings are a highlight, with shared dinners prepared together in the communal kitchen. We’ll coordinate contributions via email in the two weeks leading up to the retreat– think favourite dishes, special ingredients, or even a bottle of wine to share!

This spirit of generosity, participation, and shared experience is a big part of what makes the retreat so special.

Payment Options

Early Bird Rate – $700 by 10 November 2025

Standard Rate – $730 after 10 November 2025

Bringing Your Partner on Retreat

If your partner is a writer, bushwalker, climber, birdwatcher – or simply someone who enjoys time in nature – they're very welcome to join you at Capertee Mountain View Retreat.

They can share your accommodation, join in with group meals, and soak up the beautiful surroundings for a small additional fee. We love it when partners come to relax, explore, and contribute to the retreat experience.

Retreat Cancellation Policy

As retreat planning depends on confirmed participant numbers, the following cancellation terms apply:

• More than 6 weeks before the retreat – Full refund less admin fee $50
• 4–6 weeks prior – 50% refund of the workshop fee
• Less than 4 weeks prior – Unfortunately, no refund is available

By booking your place, you acknowledge that you have read and agree to the Terms and Conditions for Art & Painting Retreats.

Thank you for your understanding and support—it helps make these retreats possible for everyone involved.

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!