My first line of pendants for Black Pearl has officially launched!

Fiona Deffenbaugh, creater of Black Pearl, and I  started talking about creating jewellery based on tattoos almost exactly a year ago and the first collection is finally on sale.The collection consists of eight original designs, each of which I hand engrave individually onto pendants to create miniature, one-off pieces of art. Each design is influenced by my tattooing, from classic tattoo imagery of the swallows and gypsy girls to Indian mehndi patters and Mexican sugar skulls.

Each pendant is completely unique, just as a tattoo!

 

The collection is available to buy through my webstore NOW, and through the Black Pearl online store.

Although I’ve seemed pretty quiet over the past few months, I’ve actually been busy working on two big new projects, a great collaboration, some new artworks, and a new direction in my work. Not to mention lots of new tattoos which will be going up into the galleries soon!

I can’t go into too much detail right now, but stay patient, keep checking on here for more regular updates and sneak peeks!

Thanks to every one who entered to win 1 of 5 limited edition anniversary prints.

Unfortunately you couldn’t all win, so I went old school and stuck all your names in a hat and pulled out 5 winners at random.

The lucky winners are:

Simon Nicolaides

Rob Lawrence

Sam Stevens

Rachael Jackson

Glen Lee Charles

If that’s you, please email me your contact details so I can send you your print.

To celebrate my 5 year anniversary at The Family Business, I will be giving away 5 Limited Edition Prints.

To be in with a chance to win one, get on Twitter and tweet “I want a @domholmestattoo anniversary print”.

If you’re not on Twitter, email me via the contacts page on this website, and you’ll still be able to win.

Winners will be contacted by 27th April 2012.

Hunter S Thompson’s “Hell’s Angels”, re-issued by Penguin as part of their Penguin Essentials, and featuring my artwork on the cover, is now out.

Go to www.penguin.co.uk to read and see more, or buy yourself a copy!!!

I’ve spent the past few months working on a series of paintings based on my favourite myths and legends, and I’ll be uploading them onto here soon. I was gearing up to showcase them at an exhibition in Clerkenwell from 1st February, but as of today the exhibition has been postponed, so I can stick them up here instead. I will produce a maximum of 10 signed and numbered prints of each image, and they will be available to order soon.

I will keep everyone updated about the rearranged exhibition, so keep an eye out!

So there were quite a few good write-ups for the exhibition at Stolen Space in December…. here’s some links to the best of them.

Eye Magazine:
blog.eyemagazine.com/?p=1816

New York Times:
intransit.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/29/a-london-show-celebrates-the-book-cover

The Guardian:
www.guardian.co.uk/books/gallery/2010/nov/27/art

Design Week:
www.designweek.co.uk/home/blog/never-judge-a-book-by-its-cover/3021428.article

My print is completely sold out, but you can still take a look at it, and all the others in the exhibition, just visit the website:

http://www.stolenspace.com/section.php?xSec=369&xPage=28