All of the artwork on this page has been created by Dan Moran, who is our January Selected Artist

Please feel free to email Dan at: winterhimmel@gmail.com

Dan Moran is a self-taught artist who has been drawing as long as he can remember. He was born in Connecticut, moved to Maine when he was 10 years old, and moved to Vermont when he was 17 to attend Goddard College, from which he graduated in 1992 with a B.A. in Liberal Arts (concentration in metaphysics). He spent a year in San Francisco in a Ph.D. program in Philosophy and Religion at the California Institute of Integral Studies, focusing on Tibetan Buddhism. He returned to Vermont to start a new graduate program at Vermont College of Norwich University. He earned his M.A. in Philosophy and Religion from Norwich in 1995.

He has worked with many mediums, including acrylic and oil paint, stone and clay sculpture, collage, etching, and of course drawing. Drawing is his favorite, and his weapon of choice is the black ball-point pen. Dan also does calligraphy, preferring ball-point or felt-tip pens for this (rather than calligraphy pens). He has done a large number of commissioned portraits and a few commissioned creative pieces, has painted some signs with both images and lettering, and has designed a number of T-shirts.

Dan’s work has been featured in print magazines such as Cthulhu Sex, Chronicles, and Theatre of Decay, and in online magazines such as Strange Horizons, The World of Myth, and Horrotica. His work is slated to appear in issue #65 of Cemetery Dance and in upcoming issues of Shroud. He has done artwork for some black-metal bands (some local, some from as far away as Greece), for the e-books of horror author Ike Hamill, and has also done illustrations for the role-playing game The Burning Wheel.

Dan currently works as an editor of medical journals at Dartmouth Journal Services in Waterbury, Vermont, and supplements his income by freelance editing and proofreading, as well as by art commissions and by modeling. He is also an author of erotica, and has been published in print magazines and online magazines as well as in book form.

Dan has a website for a variety of his non-horror work HERE

A variety of his images are also available HERE