Creative Identity Coaching
Where Self-Expression
Meets Inner Truth
for Artists, Misfits & Makers Who Are Ready to Be Seen
Hi, I’m Aaron!
I’m a Creative Identity Guide, Storyteller, Design Mentor & Creative Magic Maker
For three decades now, I’ve helped people, businesses, and brands bring their new ideas to life through design, photography, and visual branding.
But lately, I’ve been called into deeper, more soulful 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, brand, or blog, reclaiming your creative voice, or starting over in your career (or life), this space is for you...
Choose Your Creative Adventure...
Not sure where to begin?
Explore the wild, creative paths below:
The Wild Start
For beginners starting from scratch, returners, & creatives in the process of rebuilding...
If you’re waking up a dormant creative life, or stepping into human design, graphic design, storytelling, or self-expression for the first time, this path is for you...
It’s simple, friendly, practical, & identity-foward.
Perfect if you’re needing:
- to reconnect with your creative voice
- to learn design skills in an easy, accessible way
- a soft place to land as you start building your new identity
- low-cost workshops, free guides, and impactful tools that feel supportive, not overwhelming
Explore beginner workshops, guides, and YouTube lessons.
The Wild Becoming
For creators ready to step into their next chapter...
If you’re feeling a shift inside, a new season arriving, a deeper truth igniting, a more aligned identity calling you to take a step into the unknown...
this is Where your work becomes an expression of who you’re becoming. Where creative clarity meets real creative action.
Perfect if you’re looking:
- to reconnect with your creative voice
- to learn design skills in an accessible way
- for a safe space to grow as you start building your new creative identity
- for next-level workshops, guidance, and tools that feel supportive (but not overwhelming) 🙂
Explore the Wild Becoming mentorship container and start your next chapter with elevated support.
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FREE CREATIVE FIELD GUIDE
Find Your Unique Voice
When you’re not sure where to begin
Start with the Creative Identity Compass!
This is a free creative tool to help you reconnect with your unique voice, uncover your visual aesthetic, and (gently) map your creative path ahead.
Check out this handy, printable guide to help you clarify your creative identity and next steps!
More Ways We Can Work Together
Making Magic
5-Day Creativity Camp
Self-paced Workshop, with:
Daily practices and a private camp community for anyone (from aspiring new creatives to life-long makers) ready to reconnect with their creative spark.
Breathe some fresh creative magic into your making process!
$20
Creative clarity, confidence, and self-expression designed from the inside out...
THIS is ALL about your creative identity reclamation.
If you’ve been feeling lost, in-between, or unsure how to express who you are or what you do.
In these individualized, 1:1 Creative Guidance Sessions, we’ll explore your unique visual voice, map your creative DNA, and shape a soul-aligned brand or body of work that feels real and unmistakably YOURS!
Perfect for emerging artists, makers, misfits, and multidimensional, creative humans in the midst of a creative pivot or a career reinvention.
Are you ready to reconnect with your creativity?
Looking for Visual Branding
or Design Support?
I work with a select number of branding & creative services clients each season.
Please visit Bent Barn Studio for more of my custom graphic design & bespoke 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.
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
Photo by Carrie Harris
What I do is about more than helping people build their brands. It’s about helping others reclaim their unique, creative rhythm and voice, redefine their creative visibility, and make things that feel true (to YOU).
Let’s make something honest, weird, and wonderful together.
Wherever you are, there’s a creative path for you.
Let’s find your next, new step, together...
Explore the full creative ecosystem