Hi, my name is Michael Rose and I was born in 1976, London, England. My first memory of enjoying art was at the young age of 3, when I won a primary school competition for a painting I created and I was also featured in my local paper. I was always doodling growing up, nothing was safe, text books, school desks and even the odd sketch on my parent's walls. I started my professional art career in 1994 as a tattoo artist, I opened my first registered studio in a spare room in my mums house. Four years later I had built up my client base, saved enough money and honed in on my skills well enough to open a high street studio in Barnet, North London.
As the years passed I was a regular on the U.K tattoo convention circuit, often accompanied by customers and friends, I even managed to draw in small crowds to watch me tattoo my latest artwork on someone for the competitions.
In the late 90s I was given the opportunity to work in "The Tattoo Center" in Germany in a lovely city called Koblenz on the banks of the Rhine and the Moselle. I learnt many things at this studio and it also inspired me to come back to the U.K and open a bigger and more art related studio
I am truly thankful to have enjoyed having my tattoo work featured in numerous magazines, newspapers and books, most of these features have been documented on this website in the Press Page section. To add to my attributes I am a multi award winning tattoo artist with "first place" awards won in the UK and abroad.
In 2010, I started to experiment with other art mediums and instantly enjoyed the freedom they gave me to practice my artwork in my favourite artistic style, Photorealism.
I went on to spend the next 8 years studying, developing my techniques and learning from other Photo-realists such as
Dru Blair, Eddy Wouters, Marvin Matellson and Marissa Oosterlee
In my spare time i like to share my artistic knowledge through my YouTube Channel , or
through workshops when the opportunity to do so allows me. The workshops I have held in the past and the people I had the honour of teaching was a great experience and I hope I have the pleasure of doing this again in the future.
After 30+ years of running my tattoo studio I've decided to take a step back, follow my new dream of becoming a different type of artist and have my art hung in a gallery to be sold. I will still do tattoos but just not the 6 to 7 days a week grind like i used to. I am currently working on lots of new interesting projects and I look forward to you all joining my new adventures through my social media.
When I am asked to describe myself; I say, "Dad of two cheeky monkeys, passionate about my work, driven, highly organised, friendly, tea drinking biscuit lover".
I like playing golf, you will often find me on the side of a river or lake fishing with my kids.
If your interested in finding out more about my art or me, please feel free to get in touch,
just use the contact page form, I look forward to speaking with you soon
Michael Rose
