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BACKGROUND

Born in Gran Canaria, and moved to Madrid where I worked in different fields until I ended up focusing on my artistic career.
I spent some years studying illustration and classical painting, and in the meantime I started an apprenticeship in a local tattoo studio. A few years later, I started as a full-time tattoo artist.


My motivation was fueled by the process of manifesting art and conveying feelings and stories into the skin.
One of the first things that drew me towards this art when I was teenager were the old good tattoo magazines.
There wasn't much of any other influence around me. Back in the days, in The Canary Islands we didn't have many tattoo artists, real knowledge or contact with this form of art, or Internet.
I was amazed by how far we could go decorating and modifying the body, after that, it was just a question of time until I got deep into what has been until now, my profession for nearly twenty years.

At the beginning of my career I done many different tattoo styles and full colour pieces, but ended up choosing black and grey realism as my favourite one, sometimes mixing colour within certain areas of the piece, creating contrast and different layers throughout the design.

I am passionate about dark style,
Japanese and warriors of any kind, having my work more focused on larger scale projects, like sleeves.

Besides tattooing, I also spend my time painting, which in the past few years has been primary oil on canvas, to this day this has been my favourite painting technic to work with so far.





 

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