Ingrid Christie has lived on the northwest coast for twenty-five years, where a daily communion with rocks, sea, and sky forms the foundation of her practice. Her paintings, drawings and photographs arise from this sustained engagement with the elemental forces of the earth.  

Christie’s creative practice see-saws between the conscious and the subconscious. The conscious works respond directly to shifting weather, light and tides, while her subconscious works arise from a deeper wellspring she considers to lie beyond the self.  Through automatic gestures indicative of the Surrealist movement, new forms materialise, often suggesting hybrid creatures, reproductive organs and the cyclical nature of life.  Christie feels these are accessed through her engagement with the ancient rocks as well as through her ongoing psychoanalysis sessions.  Even Christie’s double-exposure analogue photographs of rock surfaces reveal entities Christie could never have imagined.  

This enchantment provides a reawakening to the living intelligence of the earth and the deeper currents that move through all things.

In an era dominated by screens, Christie questions the illusion of digital connectedness, recognising this instead as a profound disconnection from the spiritual and intuitive. Her work seeks to restore this lost dialogue, inviting a renewed intimacy with the landscape.