Creative Identity Guidance
Where Self-Expression
Meets Inner Truth
Bringing Unique Vision & Voice to Artists, Misfits & Makers Who Are Ready to Be Seen
Hi, I’m Aaron Embrey!
Creative Identity Guide, Storyteller, Design Mentor & Magic Maker
For nearly three decades, I’ve helped people bring their new ideas to life through design, photography, and visual branding.
But lately, I’ve been called into deeper work, including guiding artists, makers, and multi-passionate misfits as they rediscover their creative magic and design a life (and personal brand) that reflects who they truly are.
Whether you’re building a new business, reclaiming your creative voice, or starting over in your career (or life), this space is for you.
FREE GUIDEBOOK
Find Your Creative Voice
When you’re not sure where to begin
Start with my Creative Identity Compass! It’s a free, soulful tool to help you reconnect with your voice, uncover your aesthetic, and gently map your creative path ahead.
Includes a printable guide and short follow-up email series to help you clarify your creative identity and next steps.
Explore My Work
Choose Your Creative Adventure
Making Magic
5-Day Creativity Camp
$20 self-paced workshop
Daily practices and private camp community for anyone from aspiring new creatives to life-long makers who are ready to reconnect with their innate creative spark. Are you ready to breathe some fresh creative magic into your making?
Creative clarity, confidence, and self-expression designed from the inside out. This isn’t just creative guidance. It’s creative identity reclamation.
If you’ve been feeling lost, in-between, or unsure how to express who you are or what you do, you’re not broken, you’re still unfolding.
In our 1:1 Creative Identity Guidance Sessions, we’ll explore your visual voice, map your creative DNA, and shape a soul-aligned brand or body of work that feels real and unmistakably yours!
Perfect for artists, makers, misfits, and multidimensional humans in the midst of a creative pivot or reinvention.
Are you ready to reconnect with your creative truth?
Looking for Branding
or Design Support?
I take on a select number of visual branding & creative services projects each season. Visit Bent Barn Studio for my custom design & visual identity work.
Or Do You Need Custom
Brand Photography?
You can also hire me to capture the essence of unique people, places, things, brands and events.
Join Me in UNFOLDING
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Direct to your inbox.
Photo by Carrie Harris
What I do is about more than helping people build their brands. It’s about reclaiming their unique creative rhythm and voice, redefining their visibility, and making things that feel true.
Let’s make something honest, weird, and wonderful together.
Kind Notes
from Happy Clients
“Aaron just ‘gets it’. He listens extremely well, quickly cuts to the chase, and provides a range of solutions. Then, once a solution is determined, he does a great job of execution. He’s incredibly easy to work with and balances the final output vs. cost and time.”
DWIGHT BLAHA
Director of Business Innovation & Excellence
“Aaron is amazing photographer. Our session was my favorite experience I’ve ever had with pictures. My daughter felt so comfortable and beautiful.”
CAROLYN PARHAM
“I love Aaron’s positive attitude. I have worked with plenty of other good photographers and designers, but Aaron makes me excited about the work we do together and all the possibilities.”
TEAL BESSON
Head of Global Creative Communications
KFC, YUM! Brands
Explore my full creative ecosystem