tattoo – nigel palmer

Out of the Ashes

I can’t believe it’s been 7 months since my last post. I somehow got distracted by my thoughts…

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!

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…

A random selection of my tattoo work from 2012.

This selection from 2011 is a little more varied to show different approaches I took in my work…