Maureen O'Connor uses patterns in her still lifes to help the flow of her compositions much the same way Cezanne and Matisse did, artists whom O'Connor admires. She has a handful of favorite pieces including a 1960s inspired psychedelic floral and a powder blue Marimekko pattern she has used for 30 years. She observes her subjects directly, in the north light of her studio by Boston Harbor. Favorite subjects include a pair of ceramic ducks given to her by the Parisian mother of an old roommate, a gumball machine, cookies and candy.
Randi Hopkins, curator at the Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art has called O'Connor " a masterful painter of things we love, like candy".
O'Connor's work is in the collection of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Fidelity Investments, Boston Medical Center and Biogen, Idec, among others. It appeared in the David Mamet Production, Lipservice, filmed in Boston. O'Connor's work is represented by Bluestone Gallery of Philadelphia, Jack Meier Gallery, Houston, TX and the Three Graces Gallery, Portsmouth, NH.

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