Jun 2020 – nigel palmer

‘Floating’ series

‘Floating’: a series of six space themed paintings from 2016.

Part 2 of my little story explaining my hiatus from tattooing, and eventual return.

Part 1 of my little story explaining my hiatus from tattooing, and eventual return.

I’m putting these years together because by this time I’d pretty much stopped photographing most of my tattoo work.

This is 2017. I think it was around this time I finally had the confidence to announce that I’d be leaving tattooing, at least for a while.

2016 was a year of good work but crummy photos!

This series came about due to frustrations with the creative process.

There’s a bit of an overlap here between 2014 and 2015.

A snapshot of tattoos completed or photographed in 2014…

It was around this period that I was doing some of my most detailed and complicated tattoo work…