As one show closes another waits in the wings, propped against walls, glowing quietly beneath layers of protective bubble wrap.

The installation of ‘Elisabeth Cummings: Interior Landscapes’ has been particularly exciting as works previously experienced as images on screen or printouts on A4 copy paper are unwrapped, hung and lit in a process that feels like a gradual increase in volume that gives the work its full voice.

Elisabeth Cummings has worked for nearly 60 years, producing an extraordinary body of work in a broad range of media.

‘Interior Landscapes’ celebrates this achievement with more than 50 paintings, prints and ceramic works inspired by her everyday surroundings – in the form of interiors and still lifes – to her travels to some of Australia’s most remote and beautiful landscapes.

Elisabeth Cummings is highly regarded in the Australian art world and celebrated for her singular vision, fluent textural brushwork and her ability to effortlessly move between abstract and figurative forms.

This shift between abstraction and figuration is exemplified in the diptytch ‘Journey through the Studio (Wedderburn)’, 2004.

For a large work, immediately striking in scale and colour, there is also quiet intimacy.

As your eyes are drawn across crumpled and cascading forms and broad gestural brushstrokes to rest on an open book, glasses and a tea cup you’re pulled into a sense of domestic familiarity that leaves the viewer in little doubt to the artist’s affections for the place where she has worked for most of her life.

A children’s activity booklet has been designed for the exhibition and will be available at the gallery front desk.

Created for primary-aged children and their adult family and friends the activities aim to encourage children in their exploration of the gallery by providing simple, guiding instructions that promote careful looking, creative thinking and drawn responses to the artworks they are seeing.

To coincide with the start of ‘Interior Landscapes’ and the busy lead-up to Christmas we're pleased to be offering Yoga in the Gallery.

Join certified instructor Shell McCahon in a series of one-hour classes designed to promote general well-being through simple breathing techniques, gentle movement and deep relaxation.

Classes will be held from 5:45pm to 6:45pm on Tuesdays.

Contact the gallery for more information and to book your place.

Entry to Orange Regional Gallery is free.