Angela
Johal

Angela Johal grew up in the 1960s and 70s outdoors in the California sunshine where California Minimalism has its roots. California Minimalists are influenced by the light quality, climate, water, horizons, spectacular sunsets and year-round color in the landscape. The fast-paced California lifestyle creates a longing to retreat into the minimal designs of architecture, furniture and art.
Johal’s clean lines, strong geometric compositions, attention to light and transparent illusions, soft color gradations and vibrant colors are influenced by her environment. Music also plays an influential part in her painting process and can be heard from outside her studio window at all hours of the day and evening. Her paintings most often include a rhythmic movement and sense of sound within them.
Vivid geometric shapes and patterns characterize Johal’s work, painting exclusively with flat, colorfields. She keeps adding to, reinventing and building upon each series and sees her paintings as “color puzzles” that she must solve. Johal’s paintings are not for the passive spectator, but beckon for interaction, where the viewer is drawn into her paintings to become engaged, active, and an integral part in completing the piece which she believes has a positive, meditative and calming effect on the viewer which is rejuvenating.
Johal’s vibrant, geometric and interactive paintings are enjoyed throughout the world and included in many corporate and private collections.