Review Exerpts on The Hidden World: A Photographic Study (1998-2002)

"The work of Adrian Welch uses icons from gothic, horror, nudes and fantasy. These iconic images are both familiar and strange in his hands, investing these bedside specters with a new significance. "
- Art Erotica Review
2005

"The typical Welch touch is best to describe as a mixture of fetish, gothic and tenderness. While most of the fetish, and in a way the gothic scene as well, have a taste for rather hard confronting images. Adrian approaches these scene's in a much softer, even romantic way. The black and white images of a nude couple making love displayed in the gallery are a good example of what I mean. It's a subtile play of touching and teasing, with a little spice of darkness."
- Genetic Material
2005

"...ripe with stories just beneath the surface...lush as super-saturated dreams, erotic as the flow of words in a poem, sexy as those nightmares you wake up from feeling horny..."
- X-Muse

"...genuinely erotic..."
- PiF Magazine

"Adrian has long been a favorite artist... He has the ability to capture deeply erotic moments in time and hold them for all to share. Powerfully enigmatic and beautifully sensual, they stimulate both both mind and body..."
- Clitical

"His work is a haunting phantasmagoria of erotic and surreal imagery that reflect his enigmatic vision and imagination. It is the ambiguous nature of his works--so subtle and sublime--that makes one want to crawl inside them and die... "
- Blood Moon Zine