Aeron Alfrey

Visual artist Aeron Alfrey has furnished illustrations for books about horror authors like HP Lovecraft, Stephen King, and Thomas Ligotti. Alfrey’s meticulously detailed nightmare worlds are crammed with denizens of all varieties, densely peopled with black and white monsters like an unholy mash-up between the medieval apocalypses of Heironymus Bosch and the spooky imagery of Stephen Gammell (Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark). Although Alfrey has primarily provided artwork for horror fiction, he’s had dozens of exhibitions over the globe in the past few years, and has recently started doing artwork for bands.
"I am 34 years old, I live in a depressing little town in Indiana called Crawfordsville. It was once referred to as “The Athens Of Indiana” for its architectural splendor but over time many of those buildings have been destroyed or left to decay. It has been host to an assortment of abandoned factories over the years, many I’ve had the opportunity to explore. I was creeping outside of the hospital I was born in the other week. It’s been abandoned for going on twenty some years and remains in wretched decay, windows smashed in, walls collapsing, stairs filled with toxic debris. So, this is a place that lends itself to my stranger imaginings on long walks at night.
As far as how long I’ve been making art, I’ve been making it all my life. Some of my earliest childhood drawings are online at “An Ancient Beastiary.”"
"I’m an artist obsessed with a deranged fantasy world that exists in my head to which I’ve given the name “The Land Of The Moth.” It is a place where I organize many of my creative ideas into a cohesive imaginary environment. The Moth is a place of nightmares, ruined abstract cities, fantastically grotesque characters, a dream world of death magic and monsters.
Regarding my training as an artist, I went to a traditional art school where I focused on drawing painting and traditional printmaking techniques. My skills related to digital imagery have all been a self-teaching experience, although my interests in digital techniques were inspired in an old-fashioned lithography studio. I recall watching someone experimenting with a composition for a stone lithographic print in Photoshop and discovering the potential of using layers for different areas of an artwork."
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