Christie Baker is a contemporary Canadian painter based in Toronto. She began painting informally in 2019 and deepened her studio practice during Toronto’s pandemic lockdown. Since her first exhibition in 2022, she has developed a rapidly expanding professional practice, with work presented in galleries, juried and curated exhibitions, art fairs, corporate environments, and private collections across Canada and internationally.

Baker’s paintings explore the emotional resonance of the objects and spaces we live with and carry forward. Working on reclaimed textiles and raw linen, she brings together vessels, domestic motifs, and familiar forms, allowing the character of each material to remain visible. Baker uses the language of still life to explore the quiet connections between objects—the memories they carry, the stories they suggest, and the spaces they create around one another. Through layering, repetition, fragmentation, and carefully considered intervals, she creates compositions that invite viewers to slow down and look closely. Her work evokes the quiet pleasures of home, the traces of lives lived around us, and the ways ordinary things can become vessels for memory, connection, and continuity.

Her studio practice has been enriched by artist residencies in Canada and France, including Hôtel Sainte-Valière, La Maison de Beaumont, Gibraltar Point, and six months on the Gatineau River in Gatineau Park, Quebec. A published writer of creative non-fiction and personal essays, Baker brings a parallel interest in narrative and observation to her visual practice. She serves as Vice Chair/Incoming Chair of the Artists’ Network Board of Directors and is an Associate Member of the Society of Canadian Artists and a member of the Federation of Canadian Artists.