Late on a Sunday night (after two full days at The Scottish Tattoo Convention!) waspossibly not the best time be meeting up with the crew from Edinburgh’s EmpireInk, but sometimes you just have to grab these opportunities when they comealong. It was high time Total Tattoo visited Alex Rattray’s awesome shop to interviewAlex himself and fellow artists Laura Jane Penman and Kyle Shields.

ISNARD BARBOSA
Neo-trad, realism and Japanese in Dublin's fair city.

IREZUMI ICONOGRAPHY
Iain Mullen and Alex Reinke's stunning book.

British Tattoo Art Revealed
The National Maritime Museum Cornwall's touring show..

RICH HARRIS Award-winning collage tattoo designs.

MARK JELLIMAN In pursuit of perfection.

GRAHAM HUMPHREYS The fine art of classic horror.

DE ART Digital art taken to new heights..

JAMIE LEE KNOTT Glowing neo-trad from tattooist owner of Dark Horse Collective.

CRANFIELD’S CURIOSITY CABINET Extraordinary taxidermy emporium.

EMANUEL OLIVEIRA Jaw-dropping collaged designs from this Portuguese artist..

CONVENTION CALENDAR: Get out and about! And organisers, send us the details of your event!, NEWS & REVIEWS: If it goes on in the tattoo world, it goes in here, REGIONAL DIRECTORY: Find the best studios in your town or apply to join our listing...

THE INTERNATIONAL LONDON TATTOO CONVENTION Truely a celebration of tattooing.

AFFANITA Anime-inspired tattoos that are setting this talented artist apart.

JACK DEMPSEY EWBANK Boxing's rising star on what his
tattoos mean to him, KRISH TRECE Beautiful neo-trad from a Spanish artist in New York, BLACKPOOL TATCON
We love to be beside the seaside!...

REGIONAL DIRECTORY
Find the best studios in your town
or apply to join our listing, CONVENTION CALENDAR
Get out and about! And organisers,send us the details of your event!, ROME TATTOO CONVENTION
Sleek as ever in its 20th year...

PORTFOLIOS Chris Morris - Semper Tattoo
Joe Farrell - Kilburn Original Claire Hamill - Semper Tattoo Dean Cowley - High Bridge Tattoo, CONVENTION CALENDAR: Get out and about! And organisers,send us the details of your event!...

THE BIG NORTH TATTOO
SHOW Highlights of Total Tattoo's
very own convention, CONVENTION CALENDAR
Get out and about! And organisers,
send us the details of your event!...

1770 TATTOO : We chat with the artists at Alex Binnie's Brighton studio, MIKE DAVIES: Tattooist and painter inspired by Dutch and Flemish old masters, CONVENTION CALENDAR: Get out and about! And organisers,send us the details of your event...

TRUE LOVE TATTOO CONVENTION: A small but perfectly formed convention in Kortrijk, REGIONAL DIRECTORY: Find the best studios in your town or apply to join our listing, CONVENTION CALENDAR: Get out and about! And organisers,send us the details of your event!...

MONDIAL DU TATOUAGE: The magnificent Paris show. If you only go to one convention, this is the one!, KIMIHITO: Assertive neo-traditional Japanese tattoos inspired by sumi-e paintings, CALVARIUM: A unique exhibition of skull-inspired art at London's famous Seven Doors Tattoo...

PORTFOLIOS Introducing: Anthony Lennox, KarolinaSylwia, Alban Isaak and Santa Perpetua

PRISON STYLE TATTOOS: The rebels’ rebel breaks free!, WILLY MARTIN MARTINEZ: Neo-trad from a traditional artist, MARIO BARTH: Possibly the most famous name in tattooing, FLORENCE TATTOO
CONVENTION: A friendly convention in the
birthplace of the Italian Renaissance, A TATTOO TRIP TO BORNEO: The dying traditions of the Iban tribes...

The first time I came across Owen Paulls was at aconvention. “Come and look at this guy,” one of the organisers said. “He’s really young and he’s doing some amazing black and grey Disney portraits.” I’m not sure what I expected, but I sure as hell wasn’t ready for what I saw. Owen was working on aportrait of Officer Judy Hopps from Zootopia. The depth and darkness of it was mind-blowing. His tattoos look REAL – which is not an easy task when the subject matter doesn’t exist in real life! Owen recently left the UK for Los Angeles and we figured we’d better catch him before he went anywhere else…

Tattoo news and reviews for your delectation anddelight. If it goes on in the tattoo world, it goes inhere. Send us your news items, books or productsfor review and items of general curiosity andintrigue for the tattoo cognoscenti.

MARTVIN OSKOWITZ AND CLAYTON PATTERSON
In conversation with two living legends of the New York scene, THE INTERNATIONAL LONDON
TATTOO CONVENTION Lighting up Tobacco Dock!...

Luke Atkinson could be described as‘the British ambassador for Japanese tattooing in Germany’. He’s been around for a long time and he learnt his trade from some of the very best artists in the world. He doesn’t post much on social media and he doesn’t do a hell of a lot to promote his studio (Checker Demon in Stuttgart) so there are a lot of you ngerartists who may not have even heard of him. But if you don’t, you certainly should!

In the recent extreme heatwave, it was difficult to escape the hot,thick air that seemed to settle so heavily over the whole of London.But inside über cool studio Seven Doors – on the aptly namedFashion Street in the East End – the temperature was, thankfully,somewhat more comfortable. That's where I met Teide, one of SevenDoors' resident artists, for an in-depth conversation about his uniqueavant-garde work.

BRISTOL TATTOO CONVENTION Can it possibly be EVEN beter than last yer? 30 BRITISH TATTOO MASTERS REIMAGINED Barnaby Titchener’s inspiring new book

Here’s a tale of real community spirit. Big-hearted Kyle McIntosh, owner of Beauty From Ashes Tattoo Parlor in Indiana, USA, decided to contribute to his local food bank in a rather unique way. On Sunday 8th April he offered free tattoos in exchange for donations of tinned, dried or other non-perishable foodstuffs.

JIM SANDERS Primitive, instinctive, intuitive, singular - we meet the creator of Brighton's Totems 80 PORTFOLIOS Gary Burns, Tattoo Workshop Fabrice Koch, Inkognito Tattoo Jonathan Peeler, Good Times Tattoo.

April will soon be here, bringing with it the return of Total Tattoo's very own Big North Tattoo Show. Yes, everyone told us they loved it so much, we've decided to do it all over again! It will take place in Newcastle-upon-Tyne’s Metro Radio Arena on 28th and 29th April. There will be nearly 300 amazing artists there, plus a fantastic programme of entertainment and lots of goodies to buy, and kids go free!

FEDERICA STEFANELLO Amazing graphic abstract tattooing from Italy 68 SHANGHAI EXTREME TATTOO EXPO Beautiful large scale Asian tattooing at its best, TRAVELLING JEWELLERY EMPORIUM  Quality individual hand-made jewellery.

MIRCO CAMPIONI Graphic tattoos and a disturbing culture clash in painting and sculpture 78 FROM BOTH SIDES OF THE NEEDLE Alex Hennerley tattoos Gary with an enigmatic codes-and-ciphers design.

MSG CUSTOM IRONS Beautifully hand-crafted machines from Majorca 78 BARCELONA TATTOO CONVENTION A spectacular urban culture festival amidst political turmoil 84 RYAN SHAFFER Painting and tattooing inspired by naive outsider art.

GRIME: SCRAMBLER MAVERICK The renowned tattooist tries his hand at motorbike design 40 COVER MODEL PROFILE Sam Howlett, whose tattoos turn life’s negatives into positives.

BERLIN TATTOO CONVENTION Awesome event in a city of alternative culture 30 jOAO BOSCO: SNAKES, SKULLS & THE FLOWER OF DEATH Joao talks to us about his exquisite new book.

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