Amy Crehore (b. 1953, USA) was born in the mountains of Virginia and grew up in the suburbs of Pennsylvania and New Jersey on the train line to New York. After completing her BFA degree in the VCU School of the Arts in Richmond, she moved to the UK in 1975 before returning to the US to begin her artistic journey. She has worked as an illustrator for journals, such as Rolling Stone, GQ, New York Times Magazine, and Forbes. Crehore’s imaginary, figurative paintings are intuitive and poetic. Her works were inspired by memories and emotions with an emphasis on compositions, often with a tinge of subtle humour. She also took artistic influence from modern European masters, the Italian primitives, underground comics, early American blues, Japanese and Goya’s prints, Victorian illustrations, cats, and found photographs.