Angela Meijer is a contemporary mixed-media artist based in Lake Country, Wisconsin. She earned her BFA in fine art photography in the Netherlands in 1997 and began her career exhibiting through limited-edition art books and installations.
Years later, after becoming a mother, she set aside her field camera and began painting every day. What started as a daily studio practice grew into a layered approach that blends photography, collage, and expressive color. Photography eventually returned to her work, now embedded directly into the paintings themselves.
Influenced by Fauvism and Expressionism, Meijer creates vibrant, garden-like compositions where faces and figures appear and disappear within fields of color. Her work explores memory, perception, and the way our stories shift over time. Each painting evolves slowly through layering, revision, and intuitive response, resulting in surfaces that feel both personal and luminous.
Statement
There is always something personal at the heart of my paintings. I think of them as layered spaces where memory, gesture, and light come together. I work with photography, collage, and vibrant color, building the surface slowly until it begins to feel alive.
Abstraction changed everything for me. It opened a new language guided by intuition and movement, allowing me to express what photography alone could not hold. When photography returned to my practice, it became part of the painting itself. Faces and figures move in and out of view, tucked inside expressive, garden like spaces. The process feels a lot like memory. Images surface, fade, and return in unexpected ways.
I am drawn to the tension between what is seen and what is hidden. Color carries emotion and structure in my work. Light shifts meaning. Each painting grows through layering and response. I rarely begin knowing exactly where it will end. Instead, the work becomes a conversation between past and present, between what is hidden and revealed.
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