Gallery — Harriet Street Tattoo

Japanese inspired fine-line butterfly on the feet with gestural, brush stroke clouds

Japanese inspired Yurei ghost. Inspired by Yoshitoshi

Japanese ukiyo-e inspired ghost. Featured as a legsleeve with sakura, cherry blossom and bats.

Fineline, soft Japanese koi fish. Tattooed in layers of black and grey.

Kyosai ghost on the forearm tattooed by Harriet Street at Nowhere Tattoo in Brighton

Japanese full colour chrysanthemum with black and grey scorpion

Ilustrative Japanese Octopus in back and grey with lots of textures. Tattooed by Harriet Street at Nowhere Tattoo in Brighton

Tentacles from an illustrative, Japanese inspired tattoo by Harriet Street at Nowhere Tattoo in Brighton

Japanese, fine line colour Iris tattoo with painterly clouds

Japanese inspired, illustrative and painterly peony tattoo. This tattoo has been applied with fine lines by Harriet Street at Nowhere Tattoo in Brighton

Brightly coloured, Japanese colour chrysanthemum by Harriet Street

Fine line, engraving and illustrative style. Also inspired by Japanese woodblock by Harriet Street at Nowhere Tattoo in Brighton

Sakura blossom. Feminine and fineline cherry blossom tattoo.

Fine line, colour cherry blossom tattoo by Harriet Street at Nowhere Tattoo

One of the things I love most about tattooing is the freedom to be playful within the medium itself. I am interested in looking closely at nature, in understanding what makes a thing recognisably itself, and then finding ways to amplify those qualities. To exaggerate a curve, give something more movement, loosen its edges or play with its proportions to capture something true about its character. I think there is a wonderful freedom in allowing observation and imagination to meet. My work often moves between softness and strength, finding ways to translate something painterly and gestural into a graphic language that belongs to tattooing, with all the considerations of clarity, permanence and how an image will age.

Japanese woodblock inspired Pigeon in black and grey and colour. This was tattooed by Harriet Street at Nowhere Tattoo in Brighton

Momo, Japanese, fineline peaches tattooed by Harriet Street at Nowhere Tattoo in Brighton

Yoshitoshi inspired Japanese Ghost with Namakubi severed head. Tattooed by Harriet Street at Frith Street Tattoo in Soho, London

Healed photo of Crow tattoo taken on Portra 400 medium format film with a Pentax 67. The fine line, Japanese inspired tattoo was done by Harriet Street in London.

Bright and classic Japanese Koi fish tattoo

Fine line, floral and feminine tattoo by Harriet Street

Japanes Hikae, clouds, cherry blossom and hannya mask tattoo by Harriet Street in London

Healed Japanese inspired eagle tattoo by Harriet Street in London. This tattoo was done with fine lines