Inga Krause Artist from Soest, Germany

Inga lives and works in Bremen. She finished her Master degree in illustration at the HAW (Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften) in Hamburg in the spring of 2021. Even as a child and then later during her studies she loved to paint on a large scale, and she still does so today. Now she sells paintings and fulfills commissions for large scale murals. In her work we find concise shapes, bright colors, illustrative figures and objects. She uses digital and physical elements when composing her works. The order of the digital aesthetic is exploded by painted surfaces over and over. Since 2020 Inga has also been creating ceramic figured. You can find the figures from her paintings reflected back in her ceramic work in three dimensional form.

We had this interview with Inga in 2019.

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What brought you to art?

That's a question I've never consciously asked myself before. Since I can remember, I have been creatively dealing with my environment and I think that is the basis for my urge to do art. My mother and my grandmother are also creative people, so my interest in art was never a really conscious decision, but rather a natural consequence. For me, the interest in art is a normal state that has always existed and has now been fanned into a fire.

Inga showing an illustration from her story "Petrichor", which was nominated for the Hamburg Picture Book Award (Photo: Michael Orth)

How did you get the opportunity to participate in Cornelia's "Artist in Residence Program"?

I'm studying illustration as part of the Master's program at the UAS in Hamburg, and a competition was announced there. We were allowed to develop an illustration for Cornelia's stories. I chose the girl who is trapped in the body of a vixen. The small text excerpt let me dive directly into the world of "Reckless".

Inga's Malibu palm trees (Photo: michael Orth)

How did you like your time on the farm? Did you find inspiration there?

The time in Malibu was magical for me. The reflecting moonlight on the waves, the thorns of the gigantic cacti, the screaming of the coyotes, all the magic of this place seems like a dream to me today. The dream remains and it keeps mixing again and again with colours, forms or feelings in my work.