Our tattoo family
Hamish Kilpatrick
Raised in London, trained in Los Angeles, amalgamating in Penzance.
I am the owner and slightly mad artist of Mishmash Tattoos which started as my personal private studio in August 2021. It has since blossomed into a team space unlike anything I have experienced before. Impeccable vibes.
I deeply love tattooing and am so grateful for what it gifts to my clients and myself. Within my craft I allow natural flow so that my art fits my client’s desires. Maybe one day I will settle down into a singular style, but for now, it’s a mishmash all the way. The three tabs below will allow you to take a deep dive into my work and maybe inspire you to get a tattoo far from the ordinary…
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. I’m a junior tattoo artist and illustrator, working here at Mishmash Tattoo Studio.
I was born and raised in Hong Kong to a mixed-heritage family, and spent many a childhood summer in rural Ireland. In 2014, at the age of 17, I moved to Cornwall and have been here ever since.
My time at Mishmash began when Hamish took me on as a studio assistant in the summer of 2022. I’ve been blown away Hamish and Marta’s passion, creativity, tenacity, and effusive enthusiasm for their craft, and for mine.
I draw inspiration from natural history and scientific illustration, motifs and compositions from folk and outsider art, themes from Eastern philosophical traditions, stories of the paranormal and supernatural, and the general absurdity of being alive.
As I continue to learn and find my footing in this industry, I hope to create projects that step beyond expression and corporeal decoration, and into the realms of bodily reclamation. Tattoos can serve as a powerful medium for emotional transformation, transcending the aesthetic, to become an opportunity for engaging in a dialogue with one’s own body and mind. My thesis - while not groundbreaking by any means - underpins my drive for this work, and I hope to fold it more and more into my practice going forwards.