Christina Ballantyne

The path to wholeness traverses horrors and wonders and yet what drives one through these attractions is a deep-seated longing for stability and peace. The act of painting itself becomes a manifestation of this longing. The painter aims to reach the end of the painting and yet as soon as it is completed the work must begin again. Christina does not offer us an answer to these timeless questions, but instead, depicts observations of the various paths that people have taken in search of resolution. Only through an individual questioning of our inner motivations, does the path to wholeness become clear.
Ballantyne says, “I work in a process of free association without preliminary drawings during which I paint the first images that come to mind without judgment and decipher their relationship to one another afterward. In this way, the painting acts as a mirror uncovering and reflecting my self- concept, behaviors, and recurrent existential questions.”

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