Tattoo Life Magazine 151

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In this issue meet the cover girl Hanae, a tattooist from Provence (France).

For our Chat at the Top, we went to Dallas, to meet the tattoo artist Deanna James, known as The Baroque Girl for her great classical art and realistic pieces.

Francesco Capro works in Brighton (UK), and has always been steeped in Tribal, the kind of tattoo that modifies and moves the body of the wearer, making them powerful and proud.

Roberto Carlos Sanchez, Cuban by birth, moved to Venezuela to teach fine art and then to New York, where he is currently working at Inknation Studio creating his surreal realistic tattoos.

We go to Sao Paulo, Brazil, to meet Denis Vazios da Silva who creates tattoos influenced by Art Nouveau with an allure of Oriental prints.

Brandon Herrera works at Black Bird Studio in Mebane, a town in North Carolina where he creates his large scale tattoos and bodysuits. His visions are inspired perhaps by the genius of H.P. Lovecraft, but also by the darkest Ossianic metal so prevalent in records of a few decades ago.

In Germany we meet Andreas Coenen, he grew-up with the mid-ninties San Francisco style. He is faifhful to Traditional style oriented towards Japanese, his great love.

To give a visual description of the work of Yui Sakamoto, a certain comparison with Hieronymus Bosch comes to mind which the artist himself says makes him feel honoured. It is from the fusion of his Japanese background and the Mexican surrealism that he creates his famous artworks.

We’re in Australia, in the heart of Richmond, it is here in 1991 that Trevor McStay opened Dynamic Tattoo, a welcoming tattoo shop where the client’s ideas are the starting point for every piece of skin art created by the team in this famous Australian tattoo shop which does everything from Fine Line to body suits

And much more…