Ally Crilly is a painter living in Ridgway, Colorado, whose first works were inspired by elephants and their fierceness, wisdom, bravery and sorrow. Her inspiration was born from dreams of elephants while she was planning a voyage to Thailand to study yoga. She began painting after being a graphic designer for many decades. She now is expanding her love of creating to products and pattern design. Crilly loves art, mountains, family, yoga and figuring out how to be a human being. She works as an artist, yoga teacher and freelance graphic designer.
“Ally’s paintings are vibrant, deeply felt, and emotionally complex explorations of self and still life, modeled onto and into the picture plane with exuberant color and psychological intensity,” he said. “They are celebrations of life, paint, abstraction, and the act of painting.”