peterborough
black and greytattoos.
high contrast black and grey, built by whichever of our four specialists actually suits your piece.
studio rate£80–£120 per hour
enquire about black and grey- four specialists in one style, matched to what your piece actually needs
- every design drawn from scratch at consultation, not picked off a wall
- large pieces mapped out in full before the first session begins
black and grey is the backbone of the studio. four of the artists here work in it: kai, jason, raf and cameron. an appointment with any one of them starts the same way: a proper conversation about what you actually want, not a five minute chat before the machine comes out. nothing here is picked off a wall or repeated from someone else's arm. every piece is drawn specifically for the person having it, at a consultation where scale gets discussed honestly before style does. a black and grey piece that's too small for what it's carrying is usually the first thing to go wrong, and it's a conversation worth having properly rather than rushing past.
that's also the point of matching you to an artist rather than handing you the next available appointment. kai's work lives or dies on the eyes and mouth, built up in patient layers rather than pushed through in one pass. jason works in high contrast lettering and large scale projects, chicano and religious imagery mostly, built for pieces that read cleanly decades from now. raf moves between realism, horror and japanese without the standard slipping, which is unusual, and it's exactly why he's the artist other artists here point people towards when a brief is broad. cameron works statues and mythology at sleeve scale, mapping a full composition before the first sitting so nothing looks bolted on at the end. four specialists, four different strengths, and the studio's job is working out which one actually fits your idea rather than whichever has a gap in the diary.
black and grey rewards that kind of care because it has nowhere to hide. with no colour to lean on, everything rests on contrast and on whether the linework underneath is strong enough to still be doing its job in twenty years. that's the real test, and it's one your artist will be honest with you about at every stage, from the first sketch through to how a design will read once it's actually healed rather than how it looks flat on paper.
appointments here run by consultation, not a queue. bring reference photos that are genuinely sharp, not screenshots pulled off social media at low resolution, since likeness and shading detail both depend on being able to see the source clearly. the conversation about scale, placement and which artist suits the piece happens before anything is booked in, so what you're committing to is clear from the start rather than worked out as you go.
the artists
who work inblack and grey.
jason.
high contrast black and grey and chicano work, built for longevity. large scale projects a speciality.
raf.
fifteen years in, and the artist the rest of us learned from. colour realism and black and grey.
cameron.
co-owner. black and grey realism — statues, mythology and portraits at sleeve scale.
what to expect
a typicalsession.
a black and grey session opens with time on the design itself, checking scale and placement before anything touches skin. small pieces usually sit in one appointment of two to three hours. anything bigger, a half sleeve, a back piece, a full composition, gets planned as a series of sittings from the start, mapped out at the first consultation so you know roughly what you're committing to before it begins. your artist will talk you through healing and timing between sessions as you go.
get in touch
book ablack and grey.
send an enquiry.
we'll reply the same day — usually within a few hours.