I'm Angela Justice, an abstract watercolor artist.

I'm interested in what a painting can do to a space. Not what it depicts, but how it changes the experience of being there.

A painting can interrupt a room, or become part of it. I'm after the second kind.

Can a painting make a space feel quieter without becoming passive? Can it hold softness without losing structure? Can it register when someone walks in and still have more to give when they stop in front of it?

That's what I'm trying to make.

I rarely begin with a fixed image. I start with a loose sense of structure, put down paint and water, and wait. I watch what emerges — what wants to come to the surface, what needs to stay buried, what the composition could be. Then I coax it out. It's less like executing a plan than negotiating in real time — a negotiation that can take days.

I spent years as a dancer before any of this — which might be why the physical part of painting has never felt optional to me. I work big, and I work on the floor. I flood the paint, lift it, scrape it back and interrupt it. I keep returning to the tension between what holds and what gives way, because that's usually where the painting starts to feel alive.

I also studied neuroscience — the brain, behavior, motivation — and spent years as a C-suite executive myself before I became a coach. That combination means I've spent much of my career trying to understand how people think, what shapes their decisions, and how environments shape the way we feel and act.

Today, alongside painting, I work as an executive coach and advisor to senior leaders in biotechnology and life sciences. On the surface, coaching and painting couldn't be more different. But to me they come from the same place. In both, I see what's already there, and I coax out what it could become.

Before watercolor, I created sculptural work from hand-foraged and preserved mosses, lichens and other botanical materials. That work has been shown in two solo exhibitions and is held in private collections across the country. A limited selection of original pieces and commissions remains available.