I seem to be doing more animal tattoos these days, pretty sure it’s because of our animal sanctuary, if you’re passionate about something, it has a way of coming back to you. I love animals I suppose I always did a lot of dragons, koi, tigers and all the typically japanese imagery, but now other critters have snuck in, and I’m enjoying it. I prefer an illustrative style of animal tattoos, specially if it’s a small piece, as it holds up the best in my experience. I’ve been tattooing for long enough to have seen how my pieces age, and it’s convinced me that simplified and strong images with bla ..read more

I’ve finally got round to editing my photos of tattoos I’d like to share, and there are so many since the last time I wrote a blog, that I’ve decided to split the blog up and organise it into subject matters. So- today I’m starting with the flowers and plants, keeping it pretty! and to keep it topical, here’s a nice autumn leaf Dave got some trees on his calf, his starting point was a birthmark on his calf that was speckly and brown and looked a bit like the crown of an autumn tree. From there we added the tree trunks, more leaves, other trees and generally had a lot of leafy fun with colours ..read more

over the years I have been asked to cover up a lot of scars, and have gained a fair bit of experience tattooing over scars. The scars generally fall into one of three categories- self harm, post operative and accident scars. My remit as a tattooist can be quite different depending on the type of scar to be covered, so let’s start with the most common one, self harm. Most often the type of self harm scar is from cutting. Depending on what kind of implement was used, the resulting scars can be light and clean lines, or wide and uneven, or a mixture of both, but nothing a nice and carefully thoug ..read more