I have been tattooing professionally since 1994, starting at the Fine Line Tattoo Studio, on London’s King’s Road and working initially with Mark C; now of “Mark’s Mark’s” Tattoo Studio in Phnom Penh and with amateur experience and training dating back to 1990. I’m also called Mark, just to add to the confusion, Mark Guru which makes me Mark G or Mark II if we are all in the same room at the same time.
I chose tattooing as my artistic medium for my taste in the classic tattoo imagery of snakes, daggers and dragons etc, and the fact that I am a compulsive doodler. Tattooing is also one of the less solitary artistic mediums; on the whole I enjoy the interaction with people involved in creating tattoos.
After working professionally for ten years, I decided that I needed my own studio to progress further as an artist. After two years trying to find a good lease and location in London and encountering problems with my prospective landlord, I gave up, and as a frequent flyer to Cambodia, I decided that Sihanoukville was the spot: A place where I could make tattoos more affordable, giving me more opportunities to do bigger and better work and where more customers want Asian style work and Buddhist iconography, which I have a strong interest in. Have a look at my photographs but the style I am trying to develop, is based on traditional South East Asian but introducing Western artistic conventions of shade and perspective, with a deal of attention paid to detail.
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