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Dark Fantasies in the Digital Realm: The Art of Award-Winning Artist Adrian Welch
Adrian Welch is an Artist/Photographer/Designer with a Summa Cum Laude degree in Communication Arts. His work has been published internationally, and has won several awards for outstanding graphic design, photography, web design, and photomontage.
Adrian Welch's work has been featured in numerous ezines, including Scarlet Letters: The Journal of Femmerotica, Blood Moon Zine, Mind Caviar, and Clean Sheets, as well as print publications such as Mac Design (USA), Dark Realms (USA), The Westborough Gazette (USA), and Cupido (Norway/Denmark).
In addition to art and photography, he specializes in photo restoration and retouching, fantasy and historical portraiture, web design, interactive multimedia, and costume design.
A Miami native, he recently left New England for the Pacific NorthWest, in search of new inspiration.
"His work is a haunting phantasmagoria of erotic and surreal imagery that reflect his enigmatic vision and imagination. It is the ambiguous nature of his works--so subtle and sublime--that makes one want to crawl inside them and die... "
- Blood Moon Zine
Adrian Welch Adrian's work is created from an intricate blending of digital and film photography, scanned objects, video stills, and illustrative effects within Photoshop. Inspirations for his art include history, spirituality, carnality, psychology, mythology, and nature, with distinctly pagan, gothic, erotic, and fantasy themes. Welch's online presence includes a virtual art gallery featuring scanned graphics, and over 200 print titles, custom framed and matted images, and original pieces of art available for sale. His website and artwork has been hailed as "original" and "breathtaking", and has garnered praise from luminaries at Photoshop User magazine, Propaganda Magazine, and Taschen Publishing. Adrian Welch presents his viewers with a series of dreamscape vistas straight from the gothic depths of the subconscious. As seductive as a lie you truely want to believe, here is art fashioned from the beauty of the human mind, that instrument so capable of contrariness and evil. Delve deep if you dare... Artist's statement "The only thing we as a civilization leave as a legacy for future generations to discover us are the things we have created."
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