Irene Castro
I was born in the city of Antofagasta, Chile on October 20th, 1971. Since I was a child I have had an irresistable love for horror tales. I would spend Sunday afternoons listening to my aunt tell ghost stories. I loved to draw and read all types of horror. Vampire tales were my favorite. I read everything I could from Carmila to the Vampire Chronicles of Anne Rice.
One day in 1993, while walking through a small book fair, I found a new kind of horror. One that made me feel fear like none had before. It was a little blue book (a pocket edition) with white letters spelling out a name I had not ever heard before – Lovecraft, Dunwich Horror. I bought it and started reading as soon as I got home. I knew hell and paradise all in that day and never forgot it. Lovecraft took me to worlds that I never imagined even in my darkest dreams.
There was the discovery of new worlds of horror. Old horrors, behind ordinary fears. Since that day I have been compiling all the Lovecraft work I can find and sharing with the world that wonderful vision that Lovecraft gave to me.
My work can also be found on artelista.com – under my pseudonym: Itzel Acosta
I started to read the stories and realized that most people cannot see what Lovecraft described, so I decided to paint to show others. Behold the “weird children of my imagination”. ¡Iä! ¡Shub-niggurath! ¡The goat with million brood! Email Irene
Irene’s Art
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May 24th, 2006 at 8:02 am
Nice work. I like it – it’s sort of a cross between Sidney Sime, Nicolas Roerich and good old Theodore Giesel.
May 24th, 2006 at 9:50 am
i really like the 2nd-to-last one, with the star-shaped structure in front of the mountain. some of these also remind me of frieda kahlo paintings. thanks for sharing your art!
May 24th, 2006 at 3:42 pm
Hola, amiga…. por fin decidistes exponer. Cuando me mostrastes tus trabajo supe que serÃa una exponente de lo misterioso y oculto de este mundo. Gracia por poner tu arte en la internet. Trataré de enviar esta página a todos los conocidos. Deseo de todo corazón que te vaya excelente en esta nueva vida que se vislumbra. Con cariño Merovingo.
May 24th, 2006 at 3:50 pm
Looks great, kind of reminds me of Derricks work, minus the satanic views
May 25th, 2006 at 12:23 pm
Te felicito, tú talento debÃa ser compartido.Gracias por confiar en mà en un comienzo y ahora por compartir con el mundo la hermosa percepción que tienes de Lovecraft.
Muchas bendiciones.
June 8th, 2006 at 8:05 pm
Felicitaciones, excelente trabajo, una desconcertante iconografÃa del horror, sigue adelante, felicitaciones
June 9th, 2006 at 7:34 pm
Me pone muy feliz el que puedas compartir con todo el mundo tu pasion por Lovecraft atraves de tu arte…
Sigue asi.
JC
July 14th, 2006 at 2:50 pm
Sister on almosin metraton, your amazing work is really a tribute to the great master H. P. Lovecraft. Congratulions.
Hermanita en almosin metraton, tu maravilloso trabajo es realmente un tributo al gran maestro H.P. Lovecraft. Felicitaciones
July 18th, 2006 at 3:55 pm
hola soy la amiga de carmen .. me recuerdas … sabes me gusto mucho tu trabajo y te felicito mucho… muy buen don el que tienes …
que estes bien… carolina
August 9th, 2006 at 12:35 pm
wow me gustó mucho tu trabajo Irene, realmente bueno, felicitaciones.
August 12th, 2006 at 1:51 pm
Really do like the “Yith”-picture. As imagined myself! Keep working!
January 23rd, 2007 at 2:54 pm
Your paintings remind me of some art I saw from Mexico. They
are beautiful. Good work.
March 2nd, 2007 at 10:55 am
Felicitaciones! igual de buenos que los cuentos. Gracias por compartir.
pd: sube más!
March 8th, 2007 at 7:34 am
Very good, keep dreaming.
April 23rd, 2007 at 11:12 am
Felicitaciones por tus cuadros; me han evocado algo muy parecido a lo que siento con la obra lovecraftiana; colores fuera de este universo, formas de pesadilla, alucinantes universos ignotos.
¡Felicitaciones desde Antofagasta!
May 24th, 2007 at 5:47 pm
I love the way you use colour in your work. It imparts a dreamlike quality ( almost a fever dream delerium feel ) to your paintings. Fantastic work.
October 27th, 2007 at 6:27 am
Really wonderful..
They have something “ancestral” inside of them..
July 12th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
i know it seems i’m trying to cheapen your art when i say it reminds me of a cross between mushrooms, lovecraft, and samurai jack… but don’t take that the wrong way. i really like all of the pictures here, and i hope you make more.