About the studio

Ciro Correia is the individual creator.

Ciro Correia Studio is the independent creative and publishing identity through which his original worlds are developed, produced and released.

The studio exists to give stories the time and space to grow across books, comics, illustration, animation and physical editions without being confined to a single medium.

Its guiding principle is simple:

Stories first.

The studio is built around a small group of complementary creative functions:

  • Studio dreams and plans.
  • Canon protects established truth.
  • Archive delights in discovery and atmosphere.
  • Editorial is meticulous about language.
  • Production thinks in terms of making and delivering.
  • Handbook asks how the studio can continue doing its work well.

Together they provide a dependable home for long-term independent creation.

About Ciro Correia

The Silent Dance of Stars

Bloodbath on Unholy Island

The Grey House

About Ciro Correia

Author, Illustrator, Designer and World-Builder

Ciro Correia is an author, illustrator, designer and independent creator based in West Sussex, England.

His work brings together storytelling, drawing, painting, graphic design, animation and moving images to create original fictional worlds that can be explored across more than one form.

He is the creator of The Silent Dance of Stars, Bloodbath on Unholy Island and The Grey House.

Across these projects, Ciro works as both writer and visual artist: developing the stories, characters and mythology while also creating the illustrations, covers, archive material and wider visual identity surrounding each world.

His work moves between the intimate and the strange—quiet human moments, dark humour, folklore, horror, memory, mystery and the sense that a larger world continues beyond the edge of the page.

About Ciro Correia

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Author, Illustrator, Designer and World-Builder

Ciro Correia is an author, illustrator, designer and independent creator based in West Sussex, England.

His work brings together storytelling, drawing, painting, graphic design, animation and moving images to create original fictional worlds that can be explored across more than one form.

He is the creator of The Silent Dance of Stars, Bloodbath on Unholy Island and The Grey House.

Across these projects, Ciro works as both writer and visual artist: developing the stories, characters and mythology while also creating the illustrations, covers, archive material and wider visual identity surrounding each world.

His work moves between the intimate and the strange—quiet human moments, dark humour, folklore, horror, memory, mystery and the sense that a larger world continues beyond the edge of the page.

The Silent Dance of Stars

Selected Worlds and Publications:

An illustrated speculative-fiction novel written and illustrated by Ciro Correia.

  • The story explores love, memory, identity and the unseen structures connecting lives. A revised Studio Edition with a newly painted cover is currently in development.

The Silent Dance of Stars

The silent dance of stars - signed

Selected Worlds and Publications:

An illustrated speculative-fiction novel written and illustrated by Ciro Correia.

  • The story explores love, memory, identity and the unseen structures connecting lives. A revised Studio Edition with a newly painted cover is currently in development.

Bloodbath on Unholy Island

Selected Worlds and Publications:

An independently published Scottish horror-comic series written and illustrated by Ciro Correia.

  • Book One, Improv, is available now.
  • Book Two is currently being written and illustrated.

Bloodbath on Unholy Island

Selected Worlds and Publications:

An independently published Scottish horror-comic series written and illustrated by Ciro Correia.

  • Book One, Improv, is available now.
  • Book Two is currently being written and illustrated.

The Grey House

Selected Worlds and Publications:

An illustrated folk-horror story currently in development.

  • Set within the forests beyond Summertown, the story combines dark folklore, fractured fairy tale and the beginnings of a young woman’s transformation into something greater—and more dangerous—than those who pursued her.

The Grey House

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Selected Worlds and Publications:

An illustrated folk-horror story currently in development.

  • Set within the forests beyond Summertown, the story combines dark folklore, fractured fairy tale and the beginnings of a young woman’s transformation into something greater—and more dangerous—than those who pursued her.

About the studio

Ciro’s practice includes:

  • fiction and world-building;
  • illustration and painting;
  • comics and graphic storytelling;
  • character and environment design;
  • book and editorial design;
  • animation and motion design;
  • moving paintings and visual experiments;
  • independent publishing;
  • creative and art direction.

Each project is developed as both a story and a world.

Books may lead into paintings.

Paintings may suggest fragments of history.

Characters may reappear in archives, moving images or future stories.

The purpose is not simply to release isolated products, but to build an enduring body of interconnected creative work.

Professional Background

Alongside his independent studio practice, Ciro has worked professionally across design, illustration and motion graphics.

This professional experience informs the studio’s approach to visual communication, production, identity and storytelling, while Ciro Correia Studio remains the dedicated home of his original authored work.
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