How did you get started as a tattoo artist? Why?
Well...I started actually getting paid for tattoos in 2002,
so let’s just say since then haha! I was an art nut and
vandal who had been pissing around tattoo shops in
the city since before those killer whales at Sea-Land ate
motherfuckers! I guess you can say it all started when
I finally got sick of getting sliced up at the family glass
shop and decided that I needed a fuckin change. I had
done a lot of glass designs around town, some of which
can be seen at the Penny Farthing Pub and front doors of
the Royal Theatre, so shit just kind of fell into place; that
and I bugged the hell out of Garry Peak at Pair ‘O’ Dice
to set me up...I was definitely a late starter at age 32!!!
Tell us some stories.
I tattooed at Pair ‘O’ Dice in Market Square for a
while...that was pretty much the wild west! I could get
arrested if I told you some of the madness that went on
down there. I tattooed at a few other shops like Old
School, Asylum and Sun City Tattoo over in Penticton.
I have tattooed all sorts of people over the years; lots
of local musicians and skaters, soldiers, gang bangers,
athletes, yoga motherfuckers, cops, real-estate agents…
the spectrum is a lot