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Jonathan Shaw is a multi-faceted artist living the proverbial gypsy life, based in Brazil, but seemingly on a perpetual adventure. The son of Artie Shaw and Doris Dowling, his life was never to be one of mediocrity, and associating with the likes of Frank Zappa, Jim Morrison, the Manson family and Bukowski, the...
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One quiet Sunday afternoon, (an occurrence that doesn’t happen too often in our house), I was lurking around Facebook when I saw an old school tattoo of an owl. It was one of the best tattoos I had ever seen. The colours were bright and distinctive, the lines straight and bold - the tattoo literally jumped right out...
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Renowned for his stunning realism work and putting ink into the skin of Sylvester Stallone and Chris Daughtry, Mike DeVries is rightly ranked among the world’s best. With MD Tattoo Studio going from strength to strength in just a few short years, we thought it was high time we checked in to survey out the lay of the...
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John Anderton is a man well beyond his 26 years in terms of being a great artist – and he’s making some waves within the community that we couldn’t ignore…Starting from the very beginning, what drew you to tattoos? What was it about them that you liked? What is your earliest tattoo memory?
"What I like about tattoos...
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The world of tattoo artist Electric Pick is vast, matchless and colourful. The restless globetrotter is at home anywhere he lays his head and it is hard to say where his homeport really is, but it is certain that he is a creative genius full of unusual ideas, concepts and designs.The fact that Pick would be an artist...
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The American/Mexican tattoo artist José Lopez developed his black & grey style from tattoos made in the prisons of California and amongst gang members in the streets of the big cities in the ‘sunny state’. Fine lines, soft shadows, realism with a magical Mexican touch! During the Dutch conventions of Breda and...
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Southampton is shrouded in thick, dark clouds. Their ominous presence poses the constant threat of a downpour, creating a thick atmosphere and a foreboding backdrop for my visit to the little studio, Tattooz by Design.
Entering the studio I am encapsulated by a small room with walls emblazoned with bold, bright and...
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Many have watched her television show, browsed through her books, read about her in the tabloids and created a persona of Kat Von D in their minds, but few know the real Katherine von Drachenberg. Who could take on such a big task? Barbara Pavone has a damn good crack at it.A passionate, at times self-...
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Jason Doll has to be the easiest man in the world to talk to. For his part, his fantastic American drawl is immediately appealing and there’s simply something about the man that draws you in but to be honest, his art does more talking for him than he ever could.
“To be honest I was very intimidated by the thought of...
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He took art in school and then went to college, studied art and took it from there. Demon started getting tattooed when he was eighteen, and after getting his first tattoo, fell in love with it. It started when a friend of his suggested it as a career when he was around twenty years old, saying “what you gonna do for...
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I shouldn’t have heroes in the art world. There should only be artists that I respect and admire whose work I appreciate, but if I was going to have a hero, Yann Black would be it – there’s nobody else on the face of the planet that could even tempt me into suggesting we conduct this interview in French:
There’s a...
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Now this is what we call work! In our continuing series of investigating the feminine form in all its tattooed glory, this issue, we bring you Alicia along with her amazing sleeves and back piece.
When did you first become interested in tattoos and what was it that initiated your interest?
"It wasn’t until my sister...
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This past Spring, the award-winning Afro-American/Korean artist Phillip Spearman paid a rare visit to Europe attending conventions in both Breda and Amsterdam to show the world once more that Korean art should – and could - sit shoulder to shoulder with the more well known Japanese and Chinese styles. With his ‘...
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Meeting Shawn Barber at last year’s Art Tattoo Montreal convention was how I first discovered Barber’s portrait of Grime. The painting, which is part of Barber’s Tattooed Portraits series, depicts Grime in an eccentric ensemble of floral-printed shirt and striped trench coat, with signature styled hair and,...
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It’s always a good feeling to come across somebody who walks it like they talk it. Ivonne Koerner – better known to the world at large as Miss Ivi – is one of those people. Stationed in Switzerland, close to the Italian border with her husband, together they man the good ship that is The Flying Dutchman – and when...
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Mark Bailey can almost be classed as “one of the old school” tattooists, having spent close to twenty years tattooing. Ask anyone one who has even a passing interest in tattoos & body art, where Golden Dragon Tattoo studio is, and I can guarantee that all will know where the studio is situated.
Mark is by now, a...
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Danny Knight was receiving international acclaim in the tattoo industry, long before his South Coast buddies Ami James and Chris Nunez put tattooing on the television map. In a career that began in 1989 and has spanned over 20 years, moving from New York to Vegas, from Vegas to Florida.
Danny Knight has worked hard...
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To take a traditional image and update it with a bolder colour scheme is haute couture amongst so many artists, but Miss Arianna breathes individuality into each of her creations that sets them apart.
She twists the structure of time-honoured motifs and forges them into flights of fancy that encompass whimsical...
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Located in the lively seaside town of Torquay, Revolver Tattoo Rooms is a studio fast developing a growing reputation within the tattoo world. Warm, friendly and with a tardis like quality once you walk in through its front door, this is a unique world created by its colorful owner and lead tattoo artist Dave Perry. A...
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When people ask me to name countries where tattoos are popular and places where you can see many great tattoo works; my mind goes places like, Japan, America, New Zealand, Borneo, but one place that would be last on my list of countries producing great tattoos is Venezuela.
One man who is single-handedly...
Jonathan Shaw is a multi-faceted artist living the proverbial gypsy life, based in Brazil, but seemingly on a perpetual adventure. The son of Artie Shaw and Doris Dowling, his life was never to be one of mediocrity, and associating with the likes of Frank Zappa, Jim Morrison, the Manson family and Bukowski, the...
One quiet Sunday afternoon, (an occurrence that doesn’t happen too often in our house), I was lurking around Facebook when I saw an old school tattoo of an owl. It was one of the best tattoos I had ever seen. The colours were bright and distinctive, the lines straight and bold - the tattoo literally jumped right out...
Renowned for his stunning realism work and putting ink into the skin of Sylvester Stallone and Chris Daughtry, Mike DeVries is rightly ranked among the world’s best. With MD Tattoo Studio going from strength to strength in just a few short years, we thought it was high time we checked in to survey out the lay of the...
John Anderton is a man well beyond his 26 years in terms of being a great artist – and he’s making some waves within the community that we couldn’t ignore…Starting from the very beginning, what drew you to tattoos? What was it about them that you liked? What is your earliest tattoo memory? "What I like about tattoos...
The world of tattoo artist Electric Pick is vast, matchless and colourful. The restless globetrotter is at home anywhere he lays his head and it is hard to say where his homeport really is, but it is certain that he is a creative genius full of unusual ideas, concepts and designs.The fact that Pick would be an artist...
The American/Mexican tattoo artist José Lopez developed his black & grey style from tattoos made in the prisons of California and amongst gang members in the streets of the big cities in the ‘sunny state’. Fine lines, soft shadows, realism with a magical Mexican touch! During the Dutch conventions of Breda and...
Southampton is shrouded in thick, dark clouds. Their ominous presence poses the constant threat of a downpour, creating a thick atmosphere and a foreboding backdrop for my visit to the little studio, Tattooz by Design. Entering the studio I am encapsulated by a small room with walls emblazoned with bold, bright and...
Many have watched her television show, browsed through her books, read about her in the tabloids and created a persona of Kat Von D in their minds, but few know the real Katherine von Drachenberg. Who could take on such a big task? Barbara Pavone has a damn good crack at it.A passionate, at times self-...
Jason Doll has to be the easiest man in the world to talk to. For his part, his fantastic American drawl is immediately appealing and there’s simply something about the man that draws you in but to be honest, his art does more talking for him than he ever could. “To be honest I was very intimidated by the thought of...
He took art in school and then went to college, studied art and took it from there. Demon started getting tattooed when he was eighteen, and after getting his first tattoo, fell in love with it. It started when a friend of his suggested it as a career when he was around twenty years old, saying “what you gonna do for...
I shouldn’t have heroes in the art world. There should only be artists that I respect and admire whose work I appreciate, but if I was going to have a hero, Yann Black would be it – there’s nobody else on the face of the planet that could even tempt me into suggesting we conduct this interview in French: There’s a...
Now this is what we call work! In our continuing series of investigating the feminine form in all its tattooed glory, this issue, we bring you Alicia along with her amazing sleeves and back piece. When did you first become interested in tattoos and what was it that initiated your interest? "It wasn’t until my sister...
This past Spring, the award-winning Afro-American/Korean artist Phillip Spearman paid a rare visit to Europe attending conventions in both Breda and Amsterdam to show the world once more that Korean art should – and could - sit shoulder to shoulder with the more well known Japanese and Chinese styles. With his ‘...
Meeting Shawn Barber at last year’s Art Tattoo Montreal convention was how I first discovered Barber’s portrait of Grime. The painting, which is part of Barber’s Tattooed Portraits series, depicts Grime in an eccentric ensemble of floral-printed shirt and striped trench coat, with signature styled hair and,...
It’s always a good feeling to come across somebody who walks it like they talk it. Ivonne Koerner – better known to the world at large as Miss Ivi – is one of those people. Stationed in Switzerland, close to the Italian border with her husband, together they man the good ship that is The Flying Dutchman – and when...
Mark Bailey can almost be classed as “one of the old school” tattooists, having spent close to twenty years tattooing. Ask anyone one who has even a passing interest in tattoos & body art, where Golden Dragon Tattoo studio is, and I can guarantee that all will know where the studio is situated. Mark is by now, a...
Danny Knight was receiving international acclaim in the tattoo industry, long before his South Coast buddies Ami James and Chris Nunez put tattooing on the television map. In a career that began in 1989 and has spanned over 20 years, moving from New York to Vegas, from Vegas to Florida. Danny Knight has worked hard...
To take a traditional image and update it with a bolder colour scheme is haute couture amongst so many artists, but Miss Arianna breathes individuality into each of her creations that sets them apart. She twists the structure of time-honoured motifs and forges them into flights of fancy that encompass whimsical...
Located in the lively seaside town of Torquay, Revolver Tattoo Rooms is a studio fast developing a growing reputation within the tattoo world. Warm, friendly and with a tardis like quality once you walk in through its front door, this is a unique world created by its colorful owner and lead tattoo artist Dave Perry. A...
When people ask me to name countries where tattoos are popular and places where you can see many great tattoo works; my mind goes places like, Japan, America, New Zealand, Borneo, but one place that would be last on my list of countries producing great tattoos is Venezuela. One man who is single-handedly...
