Location: Eugene, OR
Website: Amy Crehore
Blog: Little Hokum Rag

I first noticed Amy’s work through posts on BoingBoing several years ago. Now I see it everywhere! Amy’s paintings evoke the circus, dreamworlds, and a bygone vaudeville era, and as often as they land on canvas, the images also appear on the front of a ukulele or banjo. The scenes are filled with monkeys, cats, devils, and naked ladies, and always leave you feeling somewhat like a pervy voyeur, but not quite.

Amy’s recent solo show, DREAMGIRLS & UKES at Thinkspace Gallery in LA, ran February 13 through March 6, 2009. Her work was covered in the February 2009 issue Inked Magazine, and she just answered 20 questions for Juxtapoz.com.

Amy also has a long résumé of illustration work starting in 1991, with her pictures appearing in Rolling Stone, Esquire, Prevention, The Atlantic Monthly, ESPN Magazine, Forbes, GQ, The New York Times, Blab! and other national magazines. Her work has earned recognition from illustration annuals such as American Illustration and Communication Arts.

I began following Amy’s work through her Flickr account quite a while ago, and soon we began tweeting back and forth as well. Despite being in the thick of work for her solo show, Amy amazed me and agreed to join in on the inaugural set of Cloudy Collection prints.