Christina Ballantyne’s work, encompassing both painting and sculpture, is deeply rooted in her personal experiences, particularly her experience with temporal lobe epilepsy, which has fueled her interest in examining the role of feelings, perception, and sensory experience in her life. Her paintings employ rich colors, symbolism, and deliberate layering techniques to evoke a sense of emotion and spirituality. The process of layering, which allows old images to inform new ones, mirrors how past experiences shape our present ways of acting and perceiving the world. Ballantyne emphasizes her process of free association, a lack of preliminary drawings, and painting without brushes, viewing the process itself as a mirror reflecting her inner life and recurrent existential questions. She highlights the feeling of wholeness she experiences when her painting process is true and honest to herself, connecting this to psychological and spiritual concepts like attachment theory, codependency, and Zen Buddhism.