The establishment of The Tattooed Heart at 202 K’ Road in 2009 by owner Adam Craft continues an historical link the tattoo artist has with the precinct. Adam’s great-great-grandfather Charles Blomfield, a renowned New Zealand landscape artist, once worked from rooms on the corner of K’ Road and Queen St.
With Blomfield’s considerable artistic talent having been passed down through the generations, producing further painters, sculptors and commercial artists, the artistic gene is now evident in the work produced by Adam at his K’ Road studio. Having tattooed professionally since 1997, Adam specializes in producing traditional Japanese art work based on the country’s 6,000 year-old art form depicting stories from Buddhist mythology.
He is joined in his efforts at the company’s two level premises by four other tattooists whose combined focus is on producing custom work for clients interpreted in a classic style. Learning the classic styles before moving on to adapt them to your own is essential, Adam believes. Shuhari – loosely translated from the Japanese as ‘walk before you run’ – is his motto. The Tattooed Heart also has a Ta Moko specialist on staff apprenticed under internationally renowned Maori tattooist Gordon Hatfield. http://www.thetattooedheart.co.nz/
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