Stephanie Corkhill Hyles is a regional Australian artist whose practice is deeply grounded in creativity, community, colour, and connection to place. Raised on a sheep and wool property near Boorowa, New South Wales, Stephanie grew up in a large and creative family where artistic expression was encouraged from an early age. This nurturing environment laid the foundation for a lifelong commitment to art-making and creative education.

Stephanie studied at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, graduating with a Bachelor of Art Education in 1997, majoring in painting and etching. Since then, she has built a rich and sustained artistic career spanning more than two decades, exhibiting extensively across New South Wales, the ACT, and Queensland. Her body of work includes more than 28 solo exhibitions alongside numerous (70 plus) group exhibitions, art shows, open studios, and community-based projects. Her work continues to be shown through galleries, regional businesses, exhibitions, her website, and social media platforms.

Living and working in regional New South Wales has had a profound influence on Stephanie’s art. Her paintings are informed by the landscape, the rhythms of rural life, memory, motherhood, music, and everyday beauty. Colour is central to her visual language. It is through colour that she expresses energy, joy, emotion, and healing. Her work invites viewers into a world that is both personal and universal: one shaped by lived experience, but open to shared feeling and recognition.

Alongside her exhibition practice, Stephanie has devoted much of her professional life to teaching and creative mentorship. For more than 25 years she has taught art to children and adults through schools, private classes, workshops, and wellbeing-based creative programs. Her “Art and Wellbeing” workshops reflect her belief that creativity is not only a form of expression, but also a source of restoration, confidence, and connection. This commitment to encouraging others has become a defining part of her practice.

Stephanie’s career also reflects a strong interdisciplinary and collaborative spirit. She has illustrated and self-published books, contributed to publications and retreats focused on motherhood, art and wellbeing, designed visual material for events, and helped create art groups as the Paper Dolls Art Group and Boorowa Young Artists. These ventures demonstrate her broad understanding of art as something that can move beyond the gallery space and become part of everyday life, conversation, and community.

At the heart of Stephanie’s practice is a deep trust in art as a way of communicating what words cannot. Her creative life is one of consistency, generosity, and intuition. Whether through painting, teaching, exhibiting, or collaborating, she continues to create work that speaks with honesty and warmth. Her art is both a personal language and an offering: uplifting, expressive, and rooted in the belief that creativity has the power to heal, connect, and transform.