KRIS ELLIOTT

Welcome to Mule and Magpie! 🖤 I’m Kris, and I live between the mesas and foothills of Golden, Colorado. My frontier fantasy folk paintings illustrate and celebrate the flora and fauna, seasons, history, legends, music, and women of the Rocky Mountains and American West.

I love hiking along the Front Range and learning about the land around me. With my photographs, I created a 🌻Colorado Wildflower Guide🌻

Like wildflowers, the women in my paintings (acrylic with ink details) are warm and wild-hearted. With cheeks and skirts full and round, they welcome each season, and are joyful, brave, resilient, and independent. Meet some of them here ~ 🖤 Wildflower women 🖤 Wild West Women 🖤

posters, prints and paintings are found in my online shop and in markets and gift shops around Colorado. Illustrations and photographs are available for licensing, and I’m open for select collaborations ~ please visit my illustration portfolio and Music Gallery. i also facilitate folk art workshops for all ages. If you have an image, project, or event in mind, let’s connect!

Please follow me on instagram for my current offerings, adventures and inspirations. I hope to share with you the stories and wonder that I find in the old and the wild ~