About me

As a child, I loved to draw bright fairy-tale worlds more than anything else. Now I finally managed to turn my dreams into reality and made my passion for creativity and painting an inseparable part of my way of life.

My name is Ilona Kraikovskaia and my creative pseudonym is ALLORACRAI. I am an artist and researcher, a member of the international association of independent artists ASM-CLUB.

I’m a traveler, global citizen, a former teacher, and a diver, creator and organizer of the international art project for children and adults "Schloss Fall Plein Airs" (Estonia-Russia 2012-2013), which had to foster immersion in various types of applied art activities and experience exchange.

Born in Leningrad, now I live in Venice.

In my creative development, I am now moving from traditional fine art to contemporary art. In the general understanding of art, I leave impressionism behind, and strive through surrealism to come to conceptual contemporary art. In technique, I refuse the restrictions imposed by the canons of painting, and turn to a combination of different genres and techniques, trying to preserve the allegorical and poetry of artistic expression.