“I invite the viewer to enter the painting through the portal of the circle and journey inward — to discover personal meanings that emerge through abstraction, process, and feeling. This is the transcendent power of the work: the meeting of visual terrain, abstract thought, and the universal, positive force of the circle, offering each viewer a uniquely personal experience.”

 

Caroline Christie-Coxon’s process-driven paintings are ongoing iterations of her Fluid Loop motif — an evolving visual language of movement, circularity, and organic potential. Each work arises from the dynamic interaction between artist, medium, and elemental forces, embodying a philosophy that embraces openness, transformation, and the possibility of infinite outcomes.

At the heart of Christie-Coxon’s practice is a paradigm shift away from Cartesian dualism toward a fluid, organic ontology — one that reflects the interwoven rhythms of nature and human experience. Circularity, inherent to the human condition, becomes both method and symbol. Through repeated fluid gestures, her loops evoke concepts of unity, duality, oneness, and eternal return, offering an ode to materiality and process.

These imperfect circles — endlessly variable and evolving — are deliberate gestures ultimately shaped and resolved by natural forces. The artist’s practice becomes a space where structure meets liberation, where intention yields to alchemical revelation. Here, no two forms are alike; each painting loops back upon itself, informing and transforming its own meaning over time.

Christie-Coxon’s Fluid Loop can be seen as a contemporary hybrid of ancient symbols such as the ouroboros and the Zen enso — timeless icons now resonating within the urgent global context of circularity, interconnection, and inclusivity.

In collaborating with paint as a living, reactive medium, Christie-Coxon positions herself as facilitator rather than controller, “encouraging the paint to express itself.” Pigment becomes elemental — flowing, merging, resisting — and the work emerges as a visual record of the encounter between gesture, process, and matter. Far from concealing the act of making, her paintings foreground it, inviting viewers into the intimate, unfolding dialogue between artist, medium, and the natural world.

“I am drawn to the age-old medium of paint; working with paint can be primal, visceral, intimate, and filled with potential for expression and observation”