Meet Raven

Prior to tattooing I was an exotic animal specialist, working closely with crocodilians and many other zoo animals from cobras to lemurs.

Mostly full colour neotraditional and illustrative pieces, but I also love working on neopagan and trad, my favourite things to tattoo are colourful cartoon characters, animals and mythical creatures.

When I’m not working I mostly enjoy travelling but I commonly find myself lost in video games.

The most enjoyable part of my job is seeing how happy it can make a person, it’s one thing to create art, but to be able to bring someone’s ideas to life or create a visual image that tells their story is very rewarding, and it makes this job very meaningful.

In this line of work we are tasked with helping so many people connect their life experiences to artwork, I couldn’t narrow down to a single one. From the car crash survivor who asked me to create her phoenix, to the client who got struck by lightning and came to me for Thor’s hammer, to the tattoo for the gentleman with amnesia who began finding himself again.