30-Apr-2011

Hello,

            My Name is Simon Booth but known to every body as Sye.

I have been drawing for many years; to some I was a drawing artist, to others I was a natural born talent.

I would say I’m gifted with a delicate eye for shading work and now I’m known and talked about for my signature shading styles of black and grey work.

However variety is the key to success so I work hard on detailed colour and block colour to.

I’m digressing I’ve drawn all my life really.

I used to sit and draw anything and everything. It was as I grew in life my drawing grew with me as I moved onto drawing to capture emotions, quotes, using my pictures to tell a story, and then came my first tattoo at 18.

My dad took me for it and my mom paid for it. I remember betting with my dad that if I sat through it he had to have his both nipples pierced, to this day he blames me for the pain I put him through ha-ha

It was that moment a turning point happened in my life as I could see artwork; peoples own creations from there own minds come to life, becoming a permanent feature to a person’s body.

Inspired I spent year’s just drawing designs for anybody and anyone who wanted a tattoo, as drawing involved into what’s known as flash art, I started college only to spend every moment just sitting in tattoo shops were I used to get my piercings done and just watch them tattoo

Maybe it was at that point I wanted to tattoo but it wasn’t for many years later, after the birth of my daughter, as I was gifted with a shot at learning to tattoo by an amazing artist who was tattooing my chest at that time she saw my artwork and said “you would make an amazing tattooist” that in mind along with that fact I’ve always wanted something to call my own something I love to do and making a future for my daughter, I gave it a shot, and in 2008, after months of studying about it and studying the human body. I brought my first tattoo machine.

I used myself as the Ginny pig, tattooing my legs day in day out I fell in love with my trade finally finding what I feel is my calling in life

Then a very special man and close friend to me spent the next year pushing me to the limit, forcing my artwork and talent to grow at an accelerated rate. The man by the name of “Bone” (Martin Waite). For a year he would call me up only to tell me “get your guns I want this tattooed” as my blank canvas started to become covered in my ideas, designs and artwork.

My passion grew and his encouragement pushed me on, making me the artist I am today, but tragically he lost his life at the age of 40, sad and destructive this was to every one I knew deep down he wanted me to share my gift to the world. This is where the quote I live by “Guide my creative mind, steady my hand old friend” came from.

That’s my basic story of why I’m here and how I found my profession and this is how I will continue on till I’m no longer here.

When I wrote this I had been tattooing for 14 months. Still learning as an artist still growing as a person, but regardless totally professional at my chosen trade and true to my customers family and friends

I want to take tattooing to its peak. I want to show the world how you don’t have to know the words you want to say, pictures work just as well.

Thank you for reading about me and hopefully one day I will be the man who puts what’s close to you heart, on you for the world to see.

See you soon