Our tattoo family
Hamish Kilpatrick
Raised in London, trained in Los Angeles, flourishing in Penzance.
I am the owner and one of the artists of Mishmash Tattoos. The space started as my personal private studio in August ‘21. It has since has grown into a small. tight team I’m proud to call my tattoo family.
In 2024 I developed a new style which I call Celtedelic. It bloomed out of a winter studying, drawing and painting. The style draws on sacred geometry, my Celtic roots and a dose of psychedelia. It’s work I’m genuinely proud of, and I’m going to keep pushing it further in paint and on skin.
I’m also happy working in a wide range of other styles. You can browse a broad selection of my work in the ‘Tattoos’ catalogue below.
uprooted wINK
I am an Italian visual and tattoo artist, as well as a professional procrastinator from Turin. As you can imagine, I am always powered by coffee and I thoroughly enjoy a good pizza. Living the stereotype!
Ψ A bit of background.
In 2014, I moved to London after concluding a High School Diploma in scientific studies. Since then, I lived in London for a bit, then travelled in Australia and Vietnam, settling in Penzance at the beginning of 2017. I have a National Diploma in Art and Design from Penwith College in Penzance and I am a recent Drawing graduate from Falmouth University.
I completed my tattoo apprenticeship in my hometown just before my literal ‘uprooting’ to the big city and, after a few years of travelling, and tattooing from my kitchen table, I realised that I didn’t have any formal artistic training and qualifications. So, with the intention to improve designs and empirical skills, I went back into studying. In the meantime, I had the opportunity to work part-time at Ink & Afro tattoo studio for about three years, which allowed me to implement in my work what I was gradually learning.
Ψ Style and inspiration.
I love lines. And dots. Lots of them. Mainly black, but colour is always welcome. I am attracted to the pretty and the macabre, from botanical illustrations to surreal anatomical collages. Always extremely inspired by the items in Wunderkammer (Cabinet of Curiosities), the weird and the uncanny, and classical Renaissance and Baroque sculptures, an ode to my roots.
I am intrigued by tattoos for being a form of rite of passage, a liminal experience where the self is renewed. Stories that are carried on skin that remind us who we were whilst marking who we are and, will be.
Ψ Uprooted Art - Side artistic practice
From June 2022 to March 2023 I was part of Cultivator Cornwall’s Graduate Start-Up programme, which concluded with a collective showcase at Penwith Gallery, Porthmeor studios in St Ives and Ocean Studiuos in Plymouth. This was an incredible opportunity for me to develop the Fine Art side of my creative practice, a way to get messy and play with materials to compose site-specific installations. My medium of choice, which developed from the last project featured in the Degree show at Falmouth University, is rubber latex. I bloody love it, especially for allowing me to experiment and gradually bridging a gap between both my practices, and Dermography is just the start.
Moss
Hello, I’m Moss - tattooist and visual artist, an outsider native who’s found a creative home here at Mishmash Tattoos. Enjoyer of trees and hot beverages. Keeper of Morris the border terrier.
My work is shaped by the places I’ve lived between - Hong Kong, rural Ireland, and here in Kernow. These places have taught me different ways of paying attention, and my art comes from somewhere in the overlap.
I’m drawn to natural history and scientific illustration, animal symbolism, folklore and superstition, the contrast of organic and inorganic, and the weirdnesses that exist on the edges of daily life. Have a look at some of my work:
