A VISION.
BORN IN THE STUDIO.

For my eighteenth birthday, my mother gave me my first two tattoos. I first entered this world as a client. Then friends started working in the trade, and I began to discover what went on behind the scenes.

During my technical training in engineering, I did an internship with my tattoo artist to understand and improve a tattoo machine. To design it, I learned how to use it. By the end of the internship, my own printed machine worked. My first steps in tattooing were also my first steps as a tool maker.

I continued in my original field for a while, then set up a vehicle wrapping and business communications company. There I learned to work with graphics software, turn ideas into projects and run a business.

A major personal upheaval later made me reconsider what I truly wanted to do. I was looking for a profession where creativity, entrepreneurship and human connection would have equal importance. I returned to tattooing with everything those experiences had taught me.

Seminars, training, practice on synthetic skin and encounters with tattoo artists who supported me: I learned step by step. Looking at my mistakes and starting again has always been part of that process.

I worked in several studios and opened a few of my own. That journey took me to Leto Tattoo Studio in Montreux. Each experience helped me better understand what I wanted to build, how I wanted to welcome my clients and what I still had to learn.

At first I was drawn to dark art and horror, then to horror realism. Projects and practice gradually led me towards realism and portraits, particularly portraits of women. An expression, a look or a light can tell so much.

But behind every project is a person trusting me with their skin. Listening, respecting their story and recognising my own limits matter as much to me as the craft itself. That trust gives meaning to my work.

Mistakes, successes and questioning myself taught me to look at the profession as a whole. You need to create, but also organise the studio, choose equipment, run a business and make your work known.

With INKNATION, I want to turn that experience into practical solutions. From equipment to creative tools, my aim remains the same: make tattoo artists’ everyday work simpler, leaving more room for their art and their clients.