SOFT PAINTINGS

Soft Paintings represent a key evolution in Christie-Coxon’s practice, extending painting in response to landscape and embodied interaction.

These textile-based, fluid painting forms extend into new spaces, landscapes, and onto the body. Permeable and flexible, they function as relational interfaces, responsive to movement, environment, and context.

When worn as veils or mantles, Soft Paintings activate archetypal associations of transition, protection, concealment, and revelation. The figure becomes a contemporary human presence moving within, and as part of, the landscape.

Across diverse environments, such as oceans, deserts, mountains, forests, and coasts, these works situate the human within ecological systems, emphasising interdependence and shared condition.