Angela Johal works at the intersection of geometry and sensation. Her paintings translate synesthetic experience into precise fields of color and form, each composition a map of how one sense bleeds into another. Johal's work asks you to stop thinking about what you're looking at and start feeling it. Vivid, structured, and quietly relentless, her paintings don't hang on a wall so much as activate it. Johal's hard-edge geometric paintings engage color, perception, and optical rhythm through smooth surfaces, exacting geometry, and carefully calibrated color relationships. While compositions appear direct and immediately legible, they reveal layers of complexity through optical effects, transparency, and spatial illusion. She is drawn to geometric forms for their universality—shapes and patterns that transcend culture, age, and language. Her process begins with a carefully constructed composition, drafted by hand using pencil, straight-edge, and compass. Color decisions are made intuitively, often while listening to music, creating a synesthetic relationship between sound and hue. This approach is central to her ongoing Variations on a Theme series, which borrows its structure from music: a single compositional “theme” is reinterpreted through successive shifts in color and arrangement. Her Rhythm & Colour series further explores perception through intersecting dot systems and chromatic interaction — dots appearing to float, shift, or pulse across the surface, producing illusions of transparancy, movement, and depth that reward sustained attention. Growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area during the 1960s and 1970s, Johal was shaped by the visual language of that era—psychedelic color, precision, and clarity—an influence that continues to inform her practice. She received her B.F.A. in painting from San José State University in 1985 and works full time from her Bay Area studio. Her work is exhibited in galleries throughout the United States and Canada and is held in private and public collections internationally. Work by Angela Johal is available through Illumine Gallery. Please inquire for commissions and shipping.