About
About Christie
Christie Baker is a self-taught Canadian painter whose work emerges from the domestic landscapes that shape our sense of belonging: vintage interiors, inherited vessels, weathered textiles, and gardens tended across generations. She is drawn to how these objects and spaces accumulate memory—how a fold in fabric, a garden stem, or a well-used pot can hold the quiet imprint of lived experience. Through these familiar forms, her work reflects on continuity, care, and the gentle endurance of home.
Born in Edmonton and raised in Calgary, Ottawa, and Toronto, Baker spent two decades in Vancouver, where she and her husband, raised their daughter, before returning to Toronto in 2019. She began painting in her 50s during the uncertainty of the pandemic, discovering an intuitive visual language rooted in personal history and connection to the past. A published writer of creative non-fiction, with a professional background in beauty and fashion, she brings a strong sense of narrative, material sensitivity, and aesthetic clarity to her practice.
Baker is currently undertaking a six-month, self-directed art residency in Quebec, situated on the picturesque Gatineau River. Since beginning to exhibit in 2022, her work has entered private and corporate collections across North America. She serves as Vice Chair of the Board of Directors for the Artists’ Network and is an active member of arts organizations throughout Canada.
Artist Statement
“A thing of beauty is a joy forever.”
My paintings grow from a love of beautiful, time-worn objects and the spaces we curate around them. I am drawn to vintage vessels, heirloom fabrics, florals, and historic interiors—layers of texture, pattern, and memory that inspire both the composition and the materiality of my work. Beauty, for me, emerges from imperfection: the worn edges, the patina, the stories objects carry, and the subtle poetry of everyday life. Often, marks linger in the background of my paintings, as though history itself is revealed in the shadows.
Working on muslin and linen, and occasionally canvas, I build layered surfaces that echo the richness of velvets, brocades, and decorative fabrics, while keeping the energy and immediacy of paint at the centre. My work blends old and new, observation and imagination, creating paintings that feel curated, lived-in, and tactile.
I aim for my paintings to feel like home: inviting, intimate, and quietly transformative. Through colour, pattern, texture, and layered histories, I hope to offer viewers intimate spaces where nostalgia and contemporary sensibility coexist, and where the beauty of imperfection endures.