NORWICH BODY ART FESTIVAL 2017 ARTISTS
Meet Te
Artists
Tere are so many wonderful and talented peeps trucking over to OPEN to ink y’all that we couldn’t introduce you to them all. But we did have a little chat with a few artists to see how they started out, their favourite tattoos and how to book in with them for your own meaningful beauties.
HARRIET HEATH @ Dharma Tattoo
How did you first get into tattoos? Nobody in my family really had any tattoos so I wasn’t exposed to them properly until I got into alternative music as a teenager. I saw all the people in bands I looked up to covered in them, and I wanted to be like that! How did you go about learning to be an artist? Drawing has been my main passion and skill since I was really young. I used to draw a lot of comic and cartoon style art so adapting to traditional tattooing made sense for me. When I decided I wanted to tattoo I spent three years working on designing tattoo flash before getting an apprenticeship. Was it hard to develop your own particular style? It’s taken me a long time to get to the personal style point I’m at right now. I had to learn the rules of traditional tattooing to be able to learn how to break them and still make a solid tattoo that works and will last. Tere are so many people tattooing these days, and so many of them recycling the same imagery so I’ve been trying to do what comes naturally to me and injecting a lot of my personality into my work to make it stand out from the crowd. I truly believe the best way to thrive is to be yourself and not try to be someone else. Which other tattoo artists do you admire, and why? One of the tattooists I look up to the most is Max Kuhn. His work is so uniquely his and he gets so much emotion through in his artwork. I also love Colo Lopez as his girls are so interesting and dynamic. I look up to Miles Monaghan a lot too, who owns Dharma Tattoo in London. Working with him has helped me
grow so much as a tattooer and as a person. Can you tell us about your favourite ever tattoo? On myself or that I’ve done? My favourite tattoo I have is my backpiece by Chad Koeplinger of a big black panther with roses. Te experience of getting tattooed by him over a couple of years is something I will never forget. My favourite tattoo that I have done always changes as my work develops but is probably the backpiece I completed last year. It’s of three tough looking women in front of a brick wall with the words “bad girls” and a border made up of barbed wire, drinks, dice, spiderwebs etc. I had complete free reign on it and I couldn’t be happier with how it turned out! Tattoos are extremely popular at the moment. Why do you think it’s become so chic? I think the fear of tattooing has passed. TV shows have given people an insight into what really goes on (despite the over dramatic editing on them all) and a younger, more progressive generation coming through who are less likely to judge others on the pre-existing stigma. I think it’s a great move that tattooing has become less intimidating for so many people. I want to create a welcoming comfortable environment for my clients. How can people go about booking a time to get a tattoo with you at NBAF? If you’d like to book in with me, send an email to harrietheathtattoo@gmail. comor just walk up on the day!
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