I’ve been painting and drawing for as long as I can remember. When I was a teenager I was fortunate to spend a lot of time painting at a local gallery. A lot of the paintings pictured here and in the galleries below were made while I was still in high-school. Unfortunately I don’t get to paint much these days and when I do I’m not able to capture the ideas in my head the way that I used to. I am really lucky to have started painting in the early 2000s without internet access so my painting process is completely intuitive. Everything happens on the canvas. I don’t sketch my ideas out first or look for inspiration in books or online. I love this process because the result is always imprecise, emotive and completely imaginary.

My tattoo process is the complete opposite. Most of the time, all of the thinking and experimentation happens during the sketching phase. Your tattoo will translate a detailed sketch which we will collaborate on beforehand.

I often scour art-gallery and museum catalogues for old drawings or paintings that have entered the public domain and take historical silhouettes, animals and ornaments which I combine and reimagine in my style. Often, the “flash” sketches which I post are ideas only and usually require some level of collaboration between myself and the client to rework as a tattoo. I try to keep my flash ideas as sketchy as possible so that you can imagine the level of precision or abstraction that we will integrate into the final design. Often I include a combination of shading techniques (usually smooth or stipple shading with etching). At the beginning of your appointment we will discuss which shading style works best for you and whether you would prefer a combination or for one style to dominate. As I gain experience I hope to venture into more experimental styles of tattooing and tap into that same gestural, intuitive mark-making flow that fuels my painting.