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'As an Australian Abstract Expressionist Painter, Processing Paint follows the development of my artwork from the narrative driven pieces to my current automative works. I enable my medium to express itself on canvas. Using chemical combinations and manipulations of gravity, reactions are captured and paint is encouraged to share it's nature. Based on psychoanalytic principles the viewer is asked to project a personal meaning using the stimuli of colour, texture and light'. Caroline Christie.

'The Life and Works of Caroline Christie; Processing Paint provides an unique insight into the artist and her artwork as it has developed from the early narrative driven, painted canvases through to her current large, explosive and automative works

The ambiguity usually surrounding abstraction begins to dissolve when exposed to this beautifully presented catalogue of paintings. This book offers an opportunity which is difficult to access in an exhibition and rarely explored for West Australian living artists with over one hundred paintings displayed and discussed.' Arts Writer, Rebecca deRooy, 2009.

Based on a series of artist interviews the book is separated into four distinct sections. The first three sections provide an in depth discussion of the artists life experiences, philosophical position and her process of painting respectively, that underpin the work. In illustration of this, the final section follows the historical development of the paintings and the threads of visual elements that follow through.

Processing Paint is a welcome addition to the very short list of published West Australian artists. Written by respected arts writer Rebecca deRooy, it is an interesting insight into Abstract Expressionism; and designed to be visually stimulating it may also be enjoyed as a coffee table book.

Caroline Christie's powerful and evocative paintings draw intense emotional responses in her audience. Her method of painting is process driven; having many parallels with the forces of Nature. After a decade of working with chemical mixing she confidently captures these fluid interactions.

The Life and Works of Caroline Christie: Processing Paint provides an unique insight into the artist and her artwork as it has been developed from the early narrative driven, painted canvasses through to her current large, explosive and automative works.

The ambiguity usually surrounding abstraction begins to dissolve when exposed to this beautifully presented catalogue of paintings. This book offers an opportunity which is difficult to access in an exhibition and rarely explored for Western Australian living artists with over one hundred paintings displayed and discussed.