Jay

Dark Realism Tattoo Artist

Born in Gran Canaria, Spain and moved to Madrid where I worked in different fields until I ended up focusing on my artistic career.
I spent some years studying illustration and classical painting, and in the meantime, I started an apprenticeship in a local tattoo studio. A few years later, I started as a full-time tattoo artist.

My motivation was fuelled by the process of manifesting art and conveying feelings and stories into the skin.
I was amazed by how far we could go decorating and modifying the body, after that, it was just a question of time until I got deep into what has been until now, my profession for twenty years.
At the beginning of my career, I done many different tattoo styles and full colour projects, but ended up choosing black and grey realism as my favourite one, sometimes mixing colour within certain areas of the piece, creating contrast and different layers throughout the design.

I am passionate about dark style, Japanese and warriors of any kind, having my work more focused on larger-scale projects, like sleeves.
Besides tattooing, I also spend my time painting, which, over the past few years, has been primarily done in oil on canvas. To this day, this has been my favourite painting technique to work with so far.