Wroclaw-based tattoo artist Mariusz Trubisz fuses several visual styles into a single tattoo. Delicate portraits are paired with bold colors and shapes, and the juxtaposition speaks to the larger concepts surrounding his work. “The basic idea behind my tattoo design is the symbiosis of human and mother nature,” he tells me. “I feel like these […]
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Up for the Challenge: Why Nuno Feio Likes Hyperrealistic Tattooing
Nuno Feio got his start in hyperrealistic art by custom painting on the likes of bikes, cars, and helmets. “It was a great help for my tattooing skills,” he tells me. “You must have a steady hand when you’re painting details with an airbrush or with a pinstripe brush.” This technique translated to putting ink […]
Love, Art Brut, and Tattooing: Interview with NOON
Scene360 partnered with Tattrx to conduct a collaborative interview with renowned tattooist NOON, a guy who is all about love, sharing it, and even has the word tattooed on his hand. He’s a vegan who meditates; well he is now more conscious about his health after facing a burnout (years ago) going from one event […]
Inside the 1st International Setubal Tattoo Show
It was an unusually windy and cold weekend in June at the first-ever “Setubal Tattoo Show,” held at the Sado Hotel in Setubal—a city that is only a 30-minute drive from the capital of Portugal. But nothing stopped the 90 confirmed artists from traveling to the venue; the majority were Portuguese, well-known photorealists Mauro Amaral […]
Tom French’s “Parallax”—It Is All a Matter of Perspective and Visual Perception
Having one of Tom French’s paintings hanging in the Scene360 office, clearly means what it means. We admire what he has envisioned and painted on canvases since 2011—from our first feature of his illusional skull drawings, to present day, his continuous black-and-white oils for solo show “PARALLAX” at Unit London. He has taken strides to […]
Japanese-Inspired Woodblocks Imagined as Tattoos by Brindi
Maxime Gautron, better known as Brindi, is an artist based Toulouse, France. Inspired by Japanese art and tattoos, some of his most compelling pieces recall the culture’s traditional woodblock prints. Specifically, they seem to reference the ukiyo-e genre, albeit more surreal and updated for current times. But, the single panels displayed in flat color capture the essence […]
Hidden Faces & Somber Nudity: The Photography of Chiara Lombardi
Chiara Lombardi is a 22 year old photographer from Italy who fell in love with photography when her father handed her a disposable camera on a family vacation. Her work has evolved from vacation snaps into polished portraits that play with identity, texture, and creative interpretations of traditional portraiture. Lombardi places a high value on […]
Something’s Gone Wrong in Tattoos by Louis Loveless
Based in both London and Paris, Louis Loveless applies a comic book-style sensibility to his tattoos. Working almost entirely in black, stylized subjects, his dramatic pieces contemplate the horrors of life, the calmness death, and the false prophecies that we cling to. To convey many of these sentiments, Loveless uses glitches to fracture his subjects. This […]
Pristine Geometric Tattoos by Malvina Maria Wisniewska
The tattoo artist Malvina Maria Wisniewska (Malwina8) is a master of minimalism and geometry. Using black ink, she creates flawless, razor-sharp lines that transform sections of the body into intersecting layers of triangles and diamonds, creating a three-dimensional look. In some of her works, she applies the same geometric aesthetic to create abstractions of familiar […]
Delicate Tattoos Mimic the Natural World by Marta Lipinski
Tattoo artist Marta Lipinski started her career in the sciences and was trained as a chemical and biology lab assistant. Never intending to be in that profession for long, she eventually learned to tattoo and became obsessed—it was a way she could share her artwork with others. “I never thought that I [would] find a […]