Tattoo Life November/December 2024

Cover girl: Hanaé

Hanaé (real name Zadané) tattoos in Provence, in the quiet little town of   Maillane, but she’s prepared to travel far and wide to spread her art made of delicate insects seen through the technique of x-ray. But first she tells us about her skin which is in a state of profound change and awaiting new Japanese pieces.

Chat at the top with Deana James

We get to meet Deanna James, an artist whose name has become so well-known in the industry, a true celebrity and star of many TV series. But also – and this counts much more for us at Tattoo Life – because her shop in Dallas, Eden Body Art, is a source of marvellous tattoos, skin art which features great classical art and realistic pieces in the sophisticated style which has earned her the nickname “The Baroque Tattooer”.

The new tribal of British Francesco Capro

He has always been steeped in Tribal, the kind of tattoo that modifies and moves the body of the wearer, making them powerful and proud. Drawing on the cultures of peoples and traditions of the countries of North Africa, Asia and Northern Europe, just to mention a few… Let’s have a chat with Francesco Capro Italian by born and based in Brighton, UK.

Welcome to Dynamic Tattoo, Richmond, Australia

We’re in Australia, in the heart of Richmond, one train stop from the CBD of Melbourne, the capital of Victoria. A multicultural suburb that is also the sporting capital of Australia, it has a thriving nightlife and a lively music scene and a lot of great cafes and restaurants. 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 you can find everything from Fine Line to body suits.  

Colourful hyperrealism by American Roberto Carlos Sanchez

Cuban by birth, the tattoo artist Roberto Carlos Sanchez moved to Venezuela to teach fine art and he fell for tattoo when he came across a tattoo magazine featuring an article about Robert Hernandez which opened his eyes to that Surreal Realism that has become his hallmark. We caught up with him in New York, at Inknation Studio where he is currently working, immersed in colourstaken to extremes and inspiration from Van Gogh.

The distorted figures of Brandon Herrera

Visions inspired perhaps by the genius of H.P. Lovecraft, but also by the darkest Ossianic metal recur in the tattoos of Brandon Herrera, from North Carolina. He creates distorted figures with saturated colours that seem to live in a world between reality and nightmare.

The Traditional evolution of German Andreas Coenen

He grew up with the mid-nineties San Francisco style. In the beginning he was attracted by the New School stuff but soon the revival of Traditional happened and he jumped on it. Today Andreas Coenen remains faithful to himself slightly more oriented towards Japanese, as he tells us in this interview where he speaks not only about tattoo but the evolution of his role as a tattooist.

Denis vazios

Freehand technique, Art Nouveau and the allure of Oriental prints, applying all on large scale tattoos and drawing directly on the client’s body using the freehand technique. Meet Brazilian artist Denis Vazios and discover his new traditional view.

Who’s who: Yui Sakamoto

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. That’s because both are creators of works that involve personal aspects of the artist and chaotic worlds which contain messages deliberately codified on a visual level…

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