Flesh

My parents really supported being a creative personality and I am really glad they did that, so when I was young, I was always drawing and painting. My dad has old school traditional tattoos on his arms and I was always fascinated by the process of how it happened, this was the start of being interested in the whole industry. I stuck to being interesting in art and design throughout school, and eventually onto University where I proceeded to study Art Practice and Graphic Design. At University I always knew that I wanted to do something more creative than branding and marketing via Graphic Design. I decided to move to Manchester 2 years ago, start a new life with my sausage dog Pickle and concentrate on building a tattoo portfolio and finding a tattoo apprenticeship. At the age of 30 it was pretty daunting but it was the best decision of my life.

I’ve been fascinated by tattooing since a very young age. I was brought up by a blue-haired, tattooed rocker whom I was lucky enough to call my mother. She filled my life with multiple medias of art. We would spend our days together exploring craft fairs, painting in the garden, sitting in art galleries with a sketch pad and doodling our own versions of the pieces there. She encouraged me to interpret the world in my own way. As I got older, she would take me to rock shows and festivals where tattoos and music go hand in hand. I met the most interesting people who embraced living with an alternative look, and so to me… this is the norm.

Growing up, my mum was my favourite artist. My room was wall to wall with drawings we’d both drawn of all my favourite characters, and the stories we’d create with them. Back then I didn’t realise that we were illustrating. Using drawings to tell stories as well as jokes which was my favourite.

I started tattooing in early 2018 but my interest in it goes back a lot longer, I remember telling my parents when I was 13 that I wanted to be covered in tattoos. 17 years later my interest has got even stronger and now finding the style of tattooing that I enjoy doing the most.

Originally from Greece , Tasos is a tattoo artist now currently residing with our Flesh tattoo team and has been tattooing for the past almost 4 years.

I specialise in traditional blackwork and floral dotwork. I have a passion for tattooing anything traditional. Fun fact about me… I have a stammer. Not so fun when I can’t even say the word tattoo but jokes aside I’m a down-to-earth guy who loves a laugh.

Hi I’m Coop (she/her), you may remember me by my former name Nicola and as the receptionist.

I’m the receptionist at Flesh, I’ll likely be the one talking to you online and helping you get booked in with one of our lovely artist’s.