ABOUT
HAUS JURNEY is a fine art studio exploring wonder through engineering and precision. The work balances discipline and imagination, drawing from engineering, structure, and a lifelong practice of making.
The Work
The studio practice is shaped by contrast — precision and play, pressure and release, rigor and curiosity. Each series begins with structure and evolves through intuitive exploration. Works are created slowly and intentionally, with an emphasis on material quality, restraint, and longevity. Limited edition prints are produced using archival materials and released in small, controlled closed editions.
The Founder
Katie Jurney is an artist whose work is informed by an engineering background and a deep respect for process. Her practice reflects an interest in systems, pressure, and the moments where structure gives way to wonder. HAUS JURNEY was established as a dedicated studio for this work. In the future, HAUS JURNEY will open to those artists that work in engineered domains and create with intention.
Studio Values
• Intentional, limited production
• Archival engineered materials and methods
The Future
Over the next decade, HAUS JURNEY will expand from a studio practice into a physical gallery space. The gallery will focus on artists whose primary careers exist outside the traditional art world - engineers, scientists, accountants, educators, and other professionals who have built serious studio practices alongside technical or structured careers.
HAUS JURNEY was built on the belief that creativity and technical rigor are not opposites. Some of the most thoughtful work is made by people who think in systems, structures, and processes. They are able to translate that thinking into visual form.
The long-term goal of HAUS JURNEY is to create a space that exhibits this kind of work: disciplined, intentional, and built over a lifetime.
HAUS JURNEY is not just a studio. It is a future platform.
Meet the Founder
Meet the artist behind HAUS JURNEY — a studio shaped by engineered discipline, curiosity, and deliberate creation.
Katie Jurney | HAUS JURNEY
I have been creating for more than three decades. Alongside military service, advanced academic study, motherhood, and a career as a systems engineer at a national laboratory, art has never existed apart from structure in my life. It has always existed within it.
My creative work explores what happens when my art meets science.
Several years ago, I entered a period of recalibration. Skill remained, but direction required refinement. Rather than searching for inspiration externally, I returned to fundamentals. I imposed constraint. I chose a familiar subject — clouds — and reconstructed them through an ordinary form.
The resulting Popped series became a technical reset. Each canvas increases in physical size and technical complexity. Each composition functioned as a controlled experiment in light, atmosphere, and material refinement. Through repetition and stretch, I rediscovered not only the science of oil paint — but a renewed architectural approach to my practice.
From that point forward, my work ceased to be exploratory. It became engineered.
Today, every series is developed through structured conceptual frameworks informed by my background in systems thinking and technical projects. The geometry of rocket motor grains, the physics of motion, the mathematics of repetition, and the quiet poetry of ordinary objects all inform the visual language of HAUS JURNEY.
My paintings often begin with something familiar or meaningful to me and elevate it through scale, composition, and the science of the subject.
I work primarily in oil to honor its depth, history, and technical rigor. Light is constructed, not implied. Movement is engineered, not accidental.
HAUS JURNEY is not built on spontaneity. It is built on deliberate ascent.
Each closed series represents a defined chapter — finite, measured, and complete. Each open series functions as an experimental field. Together, they form a collection architecture that mirrors the systems frameworks that guide my professional life.
My practice exists where work ends and wonder begins.
— Katie Jurney