The artists
Tattooing is not one skill. The person who does flawless fine line botanical work is usually not the person to do a colour realism sleeve, and the honest answer to "who is your best artist" is always "best at what".
Our artists specialise rather than generalise, several are international award winners, and many have been with us for years. Find the style you want below and we will put you with the person who owns it.
Black and grey realism
Portraits, animals, statues and large-scale religious work, built entirely from diluted black. The deepest body of work in the studio.
47 pieces in black & grey tattoos
Colour realism
Film and music portraits, big cats and mythological scenes in full colour, packed with imported professional pigment.
27 pieces in realistic tattoos
Japanese and oriental
Irezumi and neo-Japanese sleeves, back pieces and leg sleeves, composed to the traditional rules of flow.
31 pieces in oriental tattoos
Fine line
Single-needle botanicals, delicate figures and script, drawn at a size that will still read clearly in ten years.
13 pieces in fineline tattoos
Ornamental, geometric and dotwork
Mandalas and sacred geometry drawn to your own anatomy, plus blackwork and Polynesian pattern work.
49 pieces in ornament & geometric tattoos
Balinese
Barong and Rangda, Garuda and temple ornament, drawn by artists who grew up with the carvings they are working from.
14 pieces in balinese tattoos
Traditional and neo-traditional
Bold outlines and a limited palette, through to full neo-trad panels with layered colour and brush shading.
27 pieces in traditional & neo-trad tattoos
Lettering and script
Chicano script, blackletter, fine handwriting and kanji, drawn for the part of the body it is going on.
15 pieces in lettering & script tattoos
Cover-ups
A separate discipline. Designing around what is already there, with before and after on every piece in the gallery.
15 pieces in coverup tattoos / before & after
How we match you
When you enquire, tell us the style you are after, roughly where it is going and how much time you have in Bali. We come back with the artist who does that work and the days they have free. If you already know whose work you want, name them and we will check their diary first.
Ask to see healed work rather than fresh photographs. Fresh tattoos all look sharp. Healed work, six months or a year on, is what tells you whether the lines held and the shading settled the way it should.