Kelly B Faltermayer
1406 Richmond, #233
Houston, TX  77006

Phone: (713) 526-6681


Kelly Faltermayer was born Salvador F. Bermudez in the capital of El Salvador in 1965.  He moved at the 
age of 15 to Houston, Texas, where he attended and graduated from The High School for the Performing 
and Visual Arts.

He placed first in the visual arts category of the MusicFest competition and was awarded a $4,000 
scholarship.  He was also commissioned to design and execute a mural for the Drama Department at 
HSPVA during his senior year.

After graduation, he attended Otis Parsons School of  Design in Los Angeles, an experience he considers 
pivotal in the development of his style and techniques.  After graduation, he returned to Houston, where 
he has since been employed by Sun Publications as the corporate art director overseeing production of 
special promotions and occasionally putting his illustrative skills to use in the form of front page features 
and cartoons.

Kelly became a naturalized American citizen in 1986,  thus the name change.

Although commercial art is his full-time job, he prefers to do science fiction, fantasy, and horror 
illustrations -- always has, and always will.

The Illustrators of the Future contest gave him his first two published illustrations, one from the 
competition and one commissioned for a second story; both illustrations appeared in the WRITERS OF 
THE FUTURE, VOLUME 6 anthology (Bridge, 1990).

Kelly has illustrated for TOMORROW SPECULATIVE FICTION magazine (Algis Budrys, Ed.) since its 
inception in 1993, and is the only artist to have work in every issue.  He has also illustrated for 
FANTASTIC WORLDS and other publications.  His other areas of concentration include metal sculpture, 
ceramic sculpture, jewelry, painting, fashion design, and computer graphics. 

Kelly cites the works of Salvador Dali, Patrick Nagel, Erte, and Boris Vallejo as being influential in the 
development of his style.  The human form, male and female, is the theme around which his own work 
revolves.  He enjoys "the evolution of art" through the works of Rubens, Durer, Caravaggio, Goya, and 
Rembrandt, to name a few.  He also enjoys the socially relevant and revolutionary works by Van Gogh and 
the non-conservative side of the Impressionists.  Japanese artwork, with its sense of orderly design, also 
influences Kelly's work.