Allison Rietta is a Canadian abstract artist whose work explores geometry as a language of perception, resonance, and inner experience. Influenced by sound, meditation, and architecture, she works across watercolour, acrylic, pastel, coloured pencil, and hand-painted collage, creating compositions that move between precision and intuition, sparse space and densely layered fields.

Rietta is interested in how rhythm, repetition, colour, and materiality can express sensation and shifting states of perception. Her work explores the tension between harmony and dissonance, stillness and movement, and the visible world and our inner experience of it.

Before establishing her full-time painting practice in 2020, Rietta spent over two decades in branding and creative direction. She studied at the Ontario College of Art and Turps Painting School. Her work has been exhibited internationally and featured in CasaFacile, Curatory Magazine, and Art Seen Magazine.

Statement

“My work explores geometry as a sensory and perceptual language shaped through rhythm, repetition, and atmosphere. Working primarily with layered watercolour, acrylic, oil pastel, coloured pencil, and hand-painted collage, I create compositions that move between structure and dissolution, precision and intuition.

Influenced by sound, meditation, architecture, and material process, I approach geometry as a living system—one capable of holding emotional resonance, spatial tension, and shifting states of perception. Through layering, translucency, and repetition, colour and form begin to function beyond the purely visual, suggesting vibration, movement, and presence.

My practice moves between minimal and immersive compositions: at times distilling form into quiet, open structures, and at others building dense, atmospheric fields of colour and texture. Across both, I explore relationships between harmony and dissonance, stillness and movement, and the ways simple geometric forms can hold complex emotional and sensory experiences.

At its core, my work investigates the relationship between inner experience and the visible world. Geometry becomes both structure and sensation—a way of exploring the space between what is seen and what is felt through material, rhythm, colour, and light.”