Tattoo Tony who?

I’ve been tattooing since 1996. It all started back when tattoos were a bit risky, what with all the dodgy characters tattooing at the time. I found work with ‘RUDY’S TATTOO STUDIO’, and working under Dee, I learned the trade the hard way.( Working my ass off every day) I had a background in fine art and graphic design so applying the art was relatively easy for me, and DEE was a great tattoo artist/ teacher.

Getting my art noticed was the next step. It was the custom work that did it for me, designing pieces for clients, putting my personal mark on whatever it was that they wanted, although in those days people were more into the cheesy small designs that never really worked for me.

“RUDY’S” in those day’s had a good reputation for cleanliness and hygiene as well as good clean work. Working with ANT, really changed things for me, and put us on the map to being a new school tattoo studio. With Dee leaving us to move overseas, the studio flourished into a young vibey studio with high quality work.

Ant moved on to his own studio and I bought the Hatfield studio and began to stamp my custom artwork on to the tattoo scene.

After a year I moved my Studio to its current location which is synonymous with high quality work, although I tend to be a little aggressive when it comes to doing my type of work and sometimes I can be a bit too honest when discussing the quality of their old work ( even if it’s mine! ). most people trust me with the designing of all their custom pieces giving me complete artistic freedom.

From small to large format pieces, there’s not much I wont do.

New school, Old school, Black & grey, tribal, Portraits, colour, Freehand , bio- mech, Tear-outs, Traditional, fine-line or pin-ups.