I have been working on a series of woodcut portraits of tattooed people over the last year, and have completed 18 so far. I recently showed those first 18 (plus 2 torsos) at Rise gallery in Berlin, and have been lucky enough to have one (a portrait of Yvonne from Blut and Eisen tattoo in Berlin) included in the Royal Academy summer exhibition! It's at the R.A. Burlington house, Piccadilly, from June 14 - Aug 22nd, so go and check it out.

The project is only half complete however, I plan on doing around 36 portraits, mostly of fellow tattoo artists, with a few clients and friends thrown in, and hopefully producing a book of the whole series. They will also be available as the original prints - all handcut and printed by me on Japanese paper (46x60cm). Here are just 3 to whet your appetite, and we have a couple on the wall in the shop in London.