About the artist

 

 

I am Armelle Ngo, a French painter and muralist based in Hermosa Beach, a small beachtown near Los Angeles, California.

My work is built on flat color, geometric line, and the simplification of form. Influences from Van Gogh and Cubism, applied to surfers, volleyball players, waves, and women standing still in bright rooms. I paint Southern California the way it feels from the inside, as a place where light does something different every hour and the body is always in motion.

I grew up in France and spent my teenage years in Paris haunting museums and making quiet promises to myself. I studied to become a translator-interpreter and lived in Europe before moving to California with my family. I picked up a brush again to volunteer as an art teacher at my kids' school. That was it.

In 2024, the City of Manhattan Beach selected me from over 100 applicants to paint a 640-square-foot mural on the Manhattan Heights Community Center. The year before I painted a 2,000-square-foot mural for the Hermosa Valley Middle School gymnasium, which the district superintendent called "a city landmark."

I am a founding member of The Art Hive, a collective of 12 women artists from various corners of the world and united by our love for creating. We meet weekly and exhibit regularly throughout the region. We participated in the Art Parade, organized by LACMA and Jeffrey Deitch with our project named Held.

Bloom where you're planted is my life's motto. My paintings are proof.