
Artist statement
My work begins with openness rather than fixed intent. I enter the surface without a predetermined outcome, allowing gesture, pressure, and material response to shape the direction of each painting. Rather than planning composition in advance, I work through a process of attention—responding to what appears, disappears, and resurfaces as the work develops.
Layering and revision are central to my method. Paint is built, interrupted, and partially removed, creating shifting spatial conditions where earlier decisions remain active beneath what is visible. This slow accumulation allows tension and balance to form gradually, rather than being imposed.
I am interested in painting as a space of ongoing negotiation—between control and release, structure and erosion. Cyclical movement emerges not as a motif, but as a working logic: gestures return, shift, and reconfigure across the surface over time.
Rather than resolving meaning, I aim to keep it in motion. Each work holds a state of becoming, where observation, material resistance, and repetition create an open field for reflection. In this space, painting becomes less about conclusion and more about sustained attention to transformation as it unfolds.
about me
Astrid Fox is a Richmond, British Columbia–based abstract painter working in mixed media. Her work explores relational dynamics, transformation, and the shifting rhythms of lived experience through a visual language of cyclical movement, gesture, and spatial tension.
Drawing from experiences of changing life roles and personal evolution, Fox investigates how proximity, pause, and release can be held within abstraction. Her paintings invite sustained looking, where movement and stillness coexist, and meaning emerges through the interplay of form, negative space, and restraint. Through this evolving visual language, Fox creates works that hold both emotional resonance and open interpretation.

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EXHIBITIONs
SOLO
Ongoing, Global Atomic Designs, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2006 Solo show. Aura of Blooms. Richmond City Hall, Richmond, Canada
2006 Solo show. Art in the Waterfront. Waterfront Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
1992 Solo Exhibition. See Bob Run. Vancouver Little Theatre, Vancouver, BC
GROUP
2026 Slice of Life, FLOWER Collective Show, Vancouver BC, Canada
2026 Slice of Life, YELLOW Collective Show, Vancouver BC, Canada
2026 Slice of Life, PINK Collective Show, Vancouver BC, Canada
2025 Federation Gallery, Curated Show, Vancouver BC, Canada
2025 Slice of Life, Blue Theory Show, Vancouver BC, Canada
2023 Phoenix Art Teacher and Student Show, Richmond, BC, Canada
2023 Guess Who Supports Art + Food Bank, Richmond, BC, Canada
2007-2009 Invitational, Annual Auction Gala , Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, Canada
2007 Juried, The Changing City, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, Canada
2007 RICHmond ARTS; The Changing City, Richmond Art Gallery Richmond, Canada
2006 Artists Among Us, Richmond Art Gallery Richmond, Canada
2006 Silent Auction. World Aids Day. Diva at the Met, Vancouver, Canada
2006 Mask -4-AIDS. Four Seasons Hotel, Vancouver, Canada
2005 Juried, Semi-Abstract Show. Federation Gallery, Vancouver. Canada.
education
2026 Momentum, 2025 & 2023 Find Your Joy course, Louise Fletcher Art, Virtual
2023 Elevating Your Abstracts workshop, Jeanette Jarville, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2021-2023 Workshop, Joseph Wong, Phoenix Art Workshop, Richmond, BC, Canada
2012 Painting Workshop, Karen Yurkovich – ECUAD, Vancouver, BC, Canada
1995 Diploma of Graphic Design & Illustration - CAPU North Vancouver, BC. Canada
1995 Painting Workshop, Paul Deggan and Kiff Holland. Montaigut-le-Blanc, Puy-de-Dôme, France
1991 Interior Designs - KPU, Richmond, BC, Canada
1990 Diploma of Fine Arts - Langara College, Vancouver, BC, Canada
AFFILIATIONS
2026 Exhibiting Status, Federation of Canadian Artist
