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'Caroline Christie continues her dance with paint and the result is the breathtaking Slant series. It delivers a new balance between the improvised and the deliberate, as she finds herself immersed in a manner of Action Painting made famous by artist, Jackson Pollock. Her canvases record what she refers to as a 'happening', where she uses paint, gravity and chemical reactions to create spontaneous effects which inform her response. This process enables Christie to explore the unconscious mind without censorship. She uncovers the full range and real extent of human emotion; from those quiet contemplative recesses of life onto the ecstatic and celebratory feelings we enjoy, while also including some moments of angst and the discordant times that we share. Her paintings talk on a physical, metaphysical and existential level where relationships are the fundamental premise for which she builds upon. Christie's paintings are sensitive and evocative; she uses delicate drips and threads them together to form lace-like filigree and overlays this with an atmospheric turbulence, together they form an environment where her circle motif continues its journey. It is hard not to respond emotionally to these large canvases. They are exciting to read; as strings and floods of paint, coagulate and run, warp and weave over the canvas, matte and gloss, light and shade, the canvas is alive with activity, simplified and defined by the dominance of the circle motif and how it relates to its environment.' Rebecca de Rooy, author of the biography on the life and work of Caroline Christie to be published in 2008:
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