Corinne is a Sydney based artist who has worked professionally in the field for over three decades. Her work has been bought and collected both locally and overseas. Much of her artistic life has been spent in the small, oceanside village of Bundeena. She now resides and has a working studio in beautiful Wentworth Falls within the Blue Mountains.  

She has a great love of flora and fauna, both native and exotic, and people from all walks of life. Corinne’s creative work reflects a playfulness and sometimes quirky nature. She refuses to be boxed into any style, but rather allows her subjects to direct the outcome.

EARLY YEARS
Corinne grew up in a creative house. Both her parents are creatives and encouraged music appreciation and writing. Her dad would often explain his ideas with sketches and cartoons, which Corinne would love to sit and watch him effortlessly create. This early experience made her completely comfortable with drawing, “as if it were like breathing, eating and walking.” Her imagination was never stifled. 

Corinne’s mum has a beautiful flare with words and both parents always encouraged her and her three siblings to seek information and be interested in people, places, history and nature. 

Corinne found solace in drawing, and she would draw anything! During her school years she would spend many hours quietly, patiently and diligently drawing. Even in the formative years, creative writing and Scouts groups commissioned work from her.

"I THINK I CAN BE AN ARTIST!"
CAREER BEGINNINGS...

Corinne’s early less conventional road has served to keep her open minded to all manner of inspiration. 

Corinne studied at Sydney College of the Arts in the 1980’s and afterwards worked as a freelance artist and illustrator whilst she followed a kayaking passion, which took her travelling abroad in order to compete.

Corinne won a passage as crew on the Young Endeavour on its bicentenary voyage and this experience served to heighten her desire to be an artist, but also to strive to be in nature as much as possible. Throughout the voyage she documented the journey with cartoons for herself and her fellow crewmates.

Corinne continued her kayaking adventures, and married a fellow paddler soon after. They together bought a canoeing business and also began a family, raising two beautiful children. During this period Corinne still kept her hand in as a freelance artist and illustrator, and exhibited some of her early work in local shows.
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She and her family later moved to the tiny village of Bundeena where she rediscovered her passion for art and joined the Bundeena/Maianbar Art Trail as a founding member. There, she opened a working studio and found a niche as an emerging artist in the area.

Corinne found success with her face landscape portraits, which helped her to hone her technique of vibrant acrylic washes with a pastel overlay. She is also known for her charcoal drawings, mostly portraits of people and exotic animals. 

Corinne loves working with acrylic and oil stick and has created many larger works and some murals. She has illustrated children’s books and recently designed and helped create a mosaic wall in Bundeena. Corinne has had many successes in group and solo shows. She has been a feature artist several times in the St George and Illawarra regions. She has also taught at local and greater Sydney art society workshops.

To the Present

In 2019 Corinne remarried and has since moved to the beautiful village of Wentworth Falls in the Blue Mountains. Here, she has a new working studio where she displays her own work and teaches young and old alike the joy of drawing and painting. She has named this her ‘Little Blue Gallery’.