Hi — thank you for taking the time to explore my work.
 

I'm Christine Paris, an interdisciplinary artist originally from New Zealand with studios in Palm Coast, Florida and Toledo, Ohio.  I create large-scale Dance Paintings, which I call Embodied Paintings, along with evolving mixed-media works inspired by movement, emotion, transformation, and the natural world.

Dance Painting—my Embodied Painting practice—is both a creative process and an invitation into presence. My paintings begin not with a predetermined image, but with movement, intuition, and emotional awareness. I engage my whole body in the act of painting, allowing gesture, rhythm, and emotion to guide the work. Through this process, I explore the relationship between body, mind, and spirit, allowing each painting to emerge through discovery rather than control. Rather than illustrating movement, my work seeks to embody it.
 

My mixed-media work has a very different kind of physicality. I work with hand-painted papers, acrylics, inks, natural materials, and layered textures, cutting each shape by hand and building my compositions piece by piece. I love the process of cutting, gluing, moving pieces around, and rearranging them until something unexpected begins to emerge. There is something deeply joyful about this process for me—it brings back the feeling of being a kid making things simply because I love to make them.
 

Many of my works also begin with something that already exists. I often reuse fragments of earlier paintings and artwork, transforming and recombining them into something new. A piece that might once have felt finished can become raw material for another work. This practice of cutting apart, reassembling, and giving materials a new life is central to the way I think about transformation—not only as a subject in my work, but as part of the making itself.
 

I studied Studio Arts at Daytona State College and bring a multidisciplinary perspective to my work, informed by earlier careers in engineering and management consulting. After retiring from those fields, I returned to art with renewed focus and a dedicated studio practice, continuing to evolve my visual language.
 

My relationship with art began more than 30 years ago through creative exploration and art therapy, where I discovered creative expression as a powerful path for self-discovery and healing. That experience continues to shape my work today, where intuition, curiosity, and embodied mark making guide each piece.

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For many years, ecstatic dance has been my spiritual practice. It offers a space where thinking gives way to presence and movement becomes a form of meditation. My Dance Paintings emerge directly from this embodied experience, carrying traces of rhythm, energy, emotion, and transformation.
 

My work is also deeply informed by years of studying natural systems through permaculture and edible garden design. Observing how living systems grow, adapt, and find balance has shaped my understanding of emergence, resilience, and interconnectedness. Whether I am creating a painting or designing a garden, I am exploring the same essential question: How can we create spaces that reconnect us with ourselves and the living world?
 

My work has been exhibited at The Hub on Canal Street in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, and Artomatic 419 in Toledo, Ohio. My Lightenup diptychs are currently on display at Underground Society in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Both my artwork and writing have also been featured in Aeolus Magazine.

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My journey as an artist continues to evolve through curiosity, experimentation, and a deep appreciation for the creative process. Whether I am moving paint across a large surface or sitting at a table cutting, gluing, and rearranging fragments, I am interested in what can happen when I let the process lead.
 

Each work is an invitation to slow down, reconnect with the body, and discover the beauty that can emerge when we trust the process.

 

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If you'd like to hear about new artwork, exhibitions, Dance Painting experiences, edible garden design projects, and occasional studio updates, I'd love to keep in touch.

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