Meet the Team at 808 Studios
Updated: Aug 25
Seven Artists. Seven Distinct Styles. One Elevated Tattoo Experience.
At 808 Studios, we believe the best tattoos begin with the right artist.
Our team is built around seven artists with distinct specialties, creative backgrounds, and approaches to tattooing. From large-scale black and grey realism to delicate fine line, vivid colour, dark illustrative work, and highly detailed micro realism, each artist brings something different to the studio.
What connects them is a shared focus on custom work, technical quality, thoughtful design, and an elevated client experience.
Here’s a closer look at the artists currently working at 808 Studios in downtown Halifax.
Jack — Large-Scale Black & Grey Realism
Jack is the founder of 808 Studios and specializes in large-scale black and grey realism. His work combines classical imagery, modern realism, strong contrast, and detailed composition to create tattoos designed specifically around the body.
He is especially drawn to larger projects where multiple ideas can be developed into one cohesive composition, including sleeves and other multi-session pieces. His approach focuses on making every element feel intentional rather than simply placing individual images beside one another.
Specialties: Large-scale realism, black & grey, sleeves, multi-session custom work
Mariia — Colour & Illustrative Tattoos
Mariia brings a completely different energy to the 808 team through her colourful illustrative style.
Her tattoos are playful, expressive, and full of personality, often drawing inspiration from cartoons, anime, animals, characters, and imaginative subject matter. Her use of bright colour and illustration makes her work immediately recognizable and especially suited to clients looking for something fun, charming, and highly individual.
Specialties: Colour tattoos, illustrative work, cartoon and anime-inspired tattoos, character designs
Nithik — Black & Grey Realism
Nithik specializes in black and grey realism and opaque grey realism, with a strong emphasis on depth, contrast, structure, and lifelike detail.
With years spent developing both realism artwork and tattooing, his work is built around careful tonal control and an understanding of light and shadow. Nithik is a strong fit for clients looking for detailed custom realism with a bold, dimensional finished look.
Specialties: Black & grey realism, opaque grey realism, portraits, custom realism
Raevle — Micro Colour Realism
Raevle specializes in incredibly detailed micro colour realism, bringing fine-art influence and careful precision into smaller-scale tattoos.
Her work frequently explores nature through flora, fauna, marine life, and highly detailed animal imagery. She is particularly skilled at capturing fine textures, subtle movement, and character in small spaces, including expressive pet portraits.
Her portfolio also extends into finely detailed black and grey work and custom cover-ups.
Specialties: Micro colour realism, nature, animals, pet portraits, detailed black & grey, cover-ups
Timmy — Dark Graphic Realism
Timmy brings a darker and more aggressive visual language to 808.
With more than a decade of tattooing experience, his signature approach blends dark realism, graphic design, illustration, and unusual textures into highly distinctive compositions.
His work is particularly suited to clients drawn toward gothic imagery, darker subject matter, dramatic contrast, experimental textures, and masculine compositions that feel different from traditional realism.
Specialties: Dark graphic realism, illustrative realism, gothic imagery, textured black & grey
Huri — Elegant Fine Line & Floral
Huri specializes in delicate fine line tattoos designed to complement the natural shape of the body.
Her work includes floral and botanical imagery, ornamental compositions, freehand designs, and extremely refined linework. With a background in Fine Art and more than 20 years of drawing experience, Huri approaches each tattoo with careful attention to flow, balance, and subtle detail.
Her style is especially suited to clients looking for tattoos that feel elegant, feminine, minimal, and timeless.
Specialties: Fine line, floral tattoos, botanical work, ornamental designs, freehand
Bonny — Blackwork & Micro Realism
Bonny combines fine line blackwork, micro realism, and graphic design influences to create tattoos with a highly distinctive visual identity.
Her work ranges from detailed animal portraits to Cyber Sigilism, vintage-inspired graphics, occult imagery, and darker conceptual work. Rather than simply recreating an image, Bonny often builds atmosphere and narrative into her designs.
Her tattoos balance delicate details with strong contrast, making her a great fit for clients looking for something unconventional and visually striking.
Specialties: Blackwork, micro realism, fine line, Cyber Sigilism, graphic and occult-inspired tattoos
Find the Right Artist for Your Tattoo
One of the advantages of having seven specialized artists under one roof is that you don't need to force your idea into one particular tattoo style.
Whether you're looking for:
Large-scale black and grey realism
Micro colour realism
Fine line florals
Dark graphic realism
Colour illustration
Custom blackwork
Portraiture
Micro realism
Or a completely custom concept
there is an artist at 808 whose work can naturally fit the direction of your project.
Every tattoo begins with understanding your idea, placement, style, and goals before developing the project with the artist best suited to bring it to life.
Your Tattoo. Your Artist. Your Experience.
From your initial inquiry through the finished tattoo and aftercare, 808 Studios is designed to make the experience feel comfortable, collaborative, and intentional.
Explore the artists, find the style that speaks to you, and start building something personal.
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