ABOUT ME

I was born in the deep mountains of northeast Portugal, a forgotten place of incredible beauty where nature is art, yet being an artist is not really an option. Still, somehow I always knew I was going to be one someday. Art has been in the center of my life since I can remember, and drawing was my favourite thing to do in kindergarten and school (specially during math classes)

In my teenage years, I swapped the pencil with a guitar, and dived deeply in my long love of music with a burning passion, and I didn’t draw for many years.

At university, I studied one of my great interests, architecture. It taught me how to look at things with different perspectives, and gave me many skills that are still useful today, when I approach any tattoo project. It was super interesting, but… my heart wasn’t really on it. Deep inside I always knew that having a regular job just wasn’t for me.

So when I found tattooing in 2015, I quit university, and never looked back.

I made my first tattoo and was immediately hooked with that thrill.

Since then my life has been a constant stream of adventures, too many to tell here. I grew tremendously as an artist, and even more as a person.

Unfortunately I didn’t have one master, but I learned with many masters through all my carreer.

In a trip to Southeast Asia in 2016, I had the chance of being an apprentice in one of the best studios in Vietnam, where I was first introduced to fine line tattoos, which opened a new door for me. Since then I’ve worked in many great studios around Europe, and explored many different styles - from blackwork, micro realism, Asian traditional art - and managed to cook my own recipe mixing all of them.

It’s been a hard yet fascinating journey of finding myself through art, while connecting with incredible people along the way.

I’m grateful to everyone that crossed paths with me, and I hope I can cross paths with you too someday.

Laos, 2016