I love design, art, beauty - using composition, color and texture to create harmony, finding beauty in details that are often overlooked, amplifying one aspect while eliminating what isn’t needed in order to guide attention to what is most important in a piece or project. I love it all.

Although design also takes into consideration the complex needs of a client, a product and the end user, it has always been the aesthetics that have most held my attention. Capturing the emotional essence of an object or message and creating a connection to it’s viewer through harmony and beauty - this is what has always resonated most for me. In short, making one feel something by looking at something.

When the advent of digital media gave birth to computer gaming, interactive design, and eventually website design, I found myself most interested in translating the emotional power of design and aesthetics to an inherently logical, sometimes cold and often detached digital landscape. I wanted to find a bridge between our technology and our humanness, to connect us and to invoke an emotional response through, what was at the time, a very new digital medium.

Many years later, as technology has inserted itself into just about every aspect of our lives, I find myself pointed back to where I began - the very tactile act of painting. Exploring what so many artists before me have - the power of art to stir something within us.

Design. Art. Beauty. These inspire, they motivate. They carry the potential to reach a part of us that is sacred - what better goal?

Enjoy the work.

Maureen Kringen

I am irresistibly drawn to looking at things, in considering what may lie beneath the surface. It is somehow reassuring to find order within what seems at first glance to be chaos : the composition of cracks in a boulder, the tar patterns on a sandy beach or the imperfect features of a face that combine just so to reveal an emotion that cuts straight to the heart. If we look enough, we can see things in ways we haven’t seen before.  In this we can find new meaning – new connections.  To me, finding an underlying organizing principle suggests that perhaps there is something larger than ourselves at play – something that connects us.   I like looking for the connection.

Finding this through color, composition and texture - exploring and rearranging until something emerges that just looks right - “feels” right is an abstract and slightly mysterious process.  It is actually more a conversation than it is a declaration.  Preconception is only a  starting point, but it’s surrender to the back and forth process that allows something unique, and often surprising, to emerge.  We seem to instinctively, although not always consciously,  know when this happens. We recognize and respond to the visual connection without stopping to think.  It draws us closer.  It has the power to reclaim in us a sense of awe, and this can connect us to both something beyond ourselves and to something that dwells deep within, simultaneously.

I love art, design….beauty. There is a sense of comfort in visual harmony, when order emerges out of what, at first glance, appears accidental or chaotic. The opportunity to find this is everywhere- - within the composition of cracks in pavement, the texture of rusty metal, the patterns of tar on a sandy beach - all of these invite further study in search of an underlying organizing principal, evidence of something beyond ourselves, perhaps some foundation that can offer meaning.

When we find this, or create this, through color, texture and composition, it feels right - and something within us knows this without having to think. It’s instinctive. It draws us closer, and it has the power to invoke emotion, to reclaim a sense of awe. It make us feel something simply by looking at something. This holds the potential to connect us to each other, and to the world.

This is beautiful.

Trying to create something that will illicit feeling, can be a mysterious and abstract, process - and also a bit daunting. But it’s the mystery that keeps things interesting and the promise of connection beyond words that makes it all worthwhile. .

Art. Design. Beauty. They inspire, they motivate, they show us things in ways we haven’t seen before. They connect us to something beyond ourselves, and deep within ourselves, simultaneously. They hold the potential to reach something sacred - what better goal?

Thank you for visiting.
Enjoy the work.

Maureen Kringen .

In graphic design, the complex needs of a client, a product and an end user are served by beauty and order, by connecting to an audience in a way that words cannot.

With the advent of digital media, the opportunity to offer a visual experience expanded. Interactive design, computer gaming and eventually website design were a new frontier that was both medium and art form. Translating the emotional power of beauty to this inherently logical, sometimes cold and often detached digital medium presented new possibilities for expression. The ability to create digital visual landscapes for my clients that could reach beyond the screen and connect with something deeper in their viewers was, for me, a compelling synthesis of logic and creativity.

Now, decades later, as life has become immersed in digital media and we are surrounded by digital worlds that rival our own realities, I find myself turning back to the tactile and imperfect qualities of paint. There is something honest and immediate about traditional mediums that I find grounding and challenging. This seemingly less complex medium, one that I started with as a child, is again inviting further exploration. The aim, however, is the same as it’s always been - to make someone feel something by looking at something.

Art. Design. Beauty. They inspire, they motivate, they show us things in ways we haven’t seen before. They connect us to something both larger than ourselves, and to the small intimate parts that dwell deep within, simultaneously. They carry the potential to reach something sacred - what better goal?

Thank you for visiting.
Enjoy the work.

Maureen Kringen

I love art, design….beauty. I am irresistibly drawn to the aesthetics of things. FInding visual harmony in the cracks in a boulder, or the patterns of tar in the sand on a beach or within the features of a face that are just slightly off balance offers a type of comfort. It seems at some point, that everything can be reduced to a visual pattern, an order that emerges out of what seems at first glance to be chaos. Finding this order, whether in the natural world, or within my work, suggests an underlying connection between all things. And this connection to the world, connects us to each other,

The process of making art , of designing, is the somewhat mysterious and often abstract process of finding connection through color, composition and texture, exploring and rearranging until what emerges has the power to invoke emotion. It is, in short, the process of making someone feel something by looking at something.

I love art, design….beauty. Since childhood, I’ve been drawn to the somewhat mysterious and often abstract process of communication through color, composition and texture, exploring and rearranging until a visual harmony, with the power to invoke emotion, emerges. It is, in short, the process of making someone feel something by looking at something.

In graphic design, this can satisfy the complex needs of a client, a product and an end user by connecting to an audience in a way that words cannot. This power of aesthetics, of beauty, in any area of life, has been something I could not resist.

With the advent of digital media, the opportunity to offer a visual experience expanded. Interactive design, computer gaming and eventually website design were a new frontier that was both medium and art form. Translating the emotional power of beauty to this inherently logical, sometimes cold and often detached digital medium presented new possibilities for expression. The ability to create digital visual landscapes for my clients that could reach beyond the screen and connect with something deeper in their viewers was, for me, a compelling synthesis of logic and creativity.

Now, decades later, as life has become immersed in digital media and we are surrounded by digital worlds that rival our own realities, I find myself turning back to the tactile and imperfect qualities of paint. There is something honest and immediate about traditional mediums that I find grounding and challenging. This seemingly less complex medium, one that I started with as a child, is again inviting further exploration. The aim, however, is the same as it’s always been - to make someone feel something by looking at something.

Art. Design. Beauty. They inspire, they motivate, they show us things in ways we haven’t seen before. They connect us to something both larger than ourselves, and to the small intimate parts that dwell deep within, simultaneously. They carry the potential to reach something sacred - what better goal?

Thank you for visiting.
Enjoy the work.

Maureen Kringen