Yallingup Galleries will present The Light We Travel, an exhibition of abstract landscape paintings and ceramic vessels by Christine Hingston, from 16 to 25 January 2027. The exhibition opens on Saturday 16 January at 5pm.
Drawing on landscapes across Western Australia, the collection explores how light, colour and the changing seasons shape our experience of the natural world, and how those impressions remain with us long after we leave.
From the intense heat, red earth and brilliant blues of the Northwest to the cooler colours of the Southwest, Hingston brings together memories of contrasting environments. Around Yallingup, filtered light through trees, muted bush greens and greys, and the changing colours of the coast have become part of her visual language.
“I don’t try to paint a particular view. Instead, I work from memory and feeling — the colours, shapes, textures and marks that remain with me after spending time in a place,” Hingston says.
Working on canvas and paper, Hingston uses oil and acrylic paint, charcoal and collage to build layered surfaces. Her intuitive process involves scraping back, drawing into and painting over earlier marks, allowing each work to develop over time. Some paintings emerge quickly, while others remain in her studio for months before she returns to them.
The exhibition’s main painting, The Circle of Life, brings these landscape memories together in a layered, circular composition. Fragments of the natural world, line, pattern, colour and movement accumulate as one mark leads to another and the painting finds its own story.
A small group of ceramic vessels extends these abstract landscapes into clay. The relationship between painting and ceramics flows in both directions: painted surfaces inform the vessels, while textures, marks and unexpected results from the kiln influence subsequent paintings.
“The Light We Travel is about the landscapes we move through, the light we experience and the memories of place that travel with us,” Hingston says.
EXHIBITION DETAILS
Artist: Christine Hingston
Opening night: Saturday 16 January 2027 at 5pm
Exhibition dates: Saturday 16 January to Monday 25 January 2027
Venue: Yallingup Galleries
Address: Corner of Caves Road and Gunyulgup Valley Drive, Yallingup
Gallery hours: 10am–4pm daily
Website: www.yallingupgalleries.com.au