This is a fantastic selection of some of the greatest living tattoo artists currently working. It took me some time to compile the list, taking into consideration a number of my favourite artists and popular artists operating around the world.
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Polish Dan
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Because Daniel Walczak is more difficult to pronounce and not quite as snappy as ‘Polish Dan’. Dan offers beautifully detailed realism designs and is adept in colour and black and grey.
Sasha Unisex
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There are few in the tattoo world who would fail to recognise Sasha’s unique and creative style. With soft, geometric and fanciful type designs that leave a beautiful, colourful look on the skin.
Shige
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Shige is a fantastic artist option if you’re looking for a beautifully colourful, traditional Japanese design. He works a lot with body suit designs and is well noted for the vibrant and complex nature of his designs.
Jeff Customs
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Jeff is a particularly fantastic artist for colour realism designs but has lately been trying to move his art into more traditional and geometric areas with his art, which is producing some equally fantastic results.
Rob Richardson
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Rob is a fantastic artist concentrating on black and grey realism style work. While his fresh tattoos are known for being very dark it is also true that his tattoos heal beautifully.
John Anderton
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Anderton is well known for his soft, smooth style when it comes to tattoos, and while usually offering fantastic, colourful and surreal designs he finds black and grey and realism work falls easily in his stride.
Radu Rusu
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Radu Rusu offers a beautiful realistic tattoos designs working with both black and grey and colour effortlessly. His style is usually soft and paint like giving a very appealing finished product.
John Barrett
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With colourful, soft and completely gorgeous designs. There are no limitations with John; regardless of whether you want something in a traditional style or a realism style he will be sure to deliver a tattoo you can be proud of.
Kelvin Slack
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With a fantastic range of black and grey realism and soft colour realism Kelvin Slack is one of the leading portrait artists in the world today. His work is known for healing beautifully and offering a fantastic standard of detail.
Lianne Moule
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Lianne is a personal favourite of mine, with soft, beautiful colours that are sure to attract attention. Lianne’s mix of realism and watercolour have been the driving point in her popularity and lead to a number of collaborated works with Jason Butcher.
Leah Moule
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Leah happens to be Lianne’s sister and shows similar promise with regards to her tattooing abilities, though tends to offer a more traditional style. Her tattooing is always very clean and soft and her designs are usually particularly cute.
Dotwork Damian
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Damian creates all of his tattoo designs using dotwork, which can lead to some pretty impressive and unique results. While a lot of his work consists of patterns and ‘dotwork realism’ tattoos he does enjoy producing some more geometrically inspired designs.
Jo Harrison
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Jo Harrison is known for the colour and detail that goes into her work, and often shows some beautifully surreal imagery that provides a fantastic design.
Phatt German
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Phatt can do it all; colourful and traditional, black and grey and of course incredible realism. There is nothing he can’t handle and the incredibly high quality look of the healed tattoo is a notorious factor of his work.
Tofi
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Looking for something beautiful but different? Tofi is quite possibly the man for you, his unique designs offer a surreal impact, generally using black and grey realism with areas of intense colour to really draw the eye and create some gorgeous results.
Jak Connolly
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If there’s one thing I love it’s a nice clean bit of black and grey realism, and Jak delivers it superbly. Creative, smooth, bold and gorgeous; every single piece I see from him is fantastic.
Mark Bester
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There’s not much to say about Mark – it is rather blatantly obvious that his work is impressive. Often working with intensely vibrant colours and softness of his work creating a painting like style to the tattoo.
Nikko
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Nikko Hurtado is generally recognised from the name Nikko alone, and produces some of the most impressive colour realism work you will ever see.
Carlos Rojas
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Carlos is known for his impressive colour portraits, offering beautiful work consistently he has definitely proven himself as an impressive artist.
Jason Butcher
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Jason’s realistic style has an almost Trash Polka feel to it, and while usually dark can often include splashes of colour. This works particularly well alongside some watercolour work, which has lead to a selection of collaborations between Jason and Lianne Moule.
Billy Hay
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While Billy tends to keep to the traditional look his work is always so smooth and well done that the work always looks vibrant, strong and unique.
Chris Crooks
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Chris is a brilliant artist for large, bold and colourful Japanese designs, working fantastically well with Japanese traditional. However one of the things I really love is the slight cross-over between western design and Japanese design that sometimes appears in his work.
Paul Vander-Johnson
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Paul is, in my opinion, one of the best artists to go to for surreal but beautiful work. His designs are always imaginative, often a little on the creepy side but so brilliantly executed that they’re beautiful.
Meehow
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Meehow Kotarski is a particularly fantastic artist for realism, both colour and black and grey varieties. This tattoo in particular is a favourite design of mine, and shows his fantastic creativity, realism capability and use of beautiful colour.
Carlos Torres
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Carlos is a, quite simply, fantastic artist for black and grey realism. However; one of my favourite things about Carlos is not the art itself (though that is fantastic) but his ability to create an impressive flow between the pieces.
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