Megan Aujla is an Atlanta-based multidisciplinary artist working across painting and fiber. Before returning fully to her art practice, she worked as a CPA at a Big Four accounting firm — an experience that continues to shape her interest in the tension between structure and unraveling, precision and intuition.
Her work moves between realism and abstraction, often combining layered color, tactile surfaces, and textile influences with imagery drawn from memory, travel, femininity, and personal experience. Influenced by contemporary abstraction, textile traditions, and a lifelong fascination with material and process, Aujla creates works that feel immersive, emotionally charged, and physically alive.
Whether weaving, tufting, painting, or drawing, she is drawn to the balance between control and chaos — creating compositions that reveal themselves slowly through texture, contrast, and accumulated detail. Her work invites prolonged looking, offering shifting moments of beauty, tension, softness, and complexity.
Artist Statement
I am interested in the space where control begins to unravel — where softness, structure, beauty, and tension exist at the same time. Through painting and fiber, I build layered works that shift between precision and instinct, realism and abstraction.
Texture and material play a central role in my practice. Fiber allows for movement, accumulation, and physical depth, while painting gives me the ability to create atmosphere, contrast, and moments of clarity. Though the mediums differ, both are rooted in repetition, layering, and a tactile relationship to process.
Influenced by travel, textile traditions, contemporary abstraction, and the emotional power of color, I create works that reveal themselves slowly. I want the viewer to feel drawn in first by beauty and atmosphere, then held there by complexity, contradiction, and discovery.
