Tristan Elwell is a member of the Beautiful Bizarre Artist Directory
Tristan Elwell grew up in New York City, going to the Met and MoMA, Forbidden Planet and CBGB. That mixture of fine art, comics and fantasy/science fiction, and alternative music has continued to influence his work up to today.
His illustrations have appeared on hundreds of book covers, magazine covers, and international advertising campaigns, and his work has been honored by the Society of Illustrators, Print, Spectrum: the Best of Contemporary Fantastic Art and Communication Arts magazine. He has won the Chesley Award for Best Paperback Cover and was nominated for Best Professional Artist at the 2024 Hugo Awards.
In recent years Tristan has increasingly focused on personal work, and has exhibited in galleries in New York, California, and Europe, as well at the United Nations.
Tristan lives in the Hudson Valley of New York and teaches drawing, painting, and illustration at the School of Visual Arts.
Tristan Elwell’s personal work draws from the traditions of the Pre-Raphaelites, Gothic Romance, fin de siècle Symbolists and Decadents, as well as the Golden Age of American and British illustration, and imbues them with a 21st century sensibility.
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