Tattoo Artist Bio For Pat Fish - Tattoo Santa Barbara

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DOB: November 28, 1954
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius, Year of the Wooden Horse
Marital Status: Heterosexual bachelorette
Children: None
Pets: Irish Wolfhounds, Manx cats, tropical fish, and a gaited Rocky Mountain mule.
Favorite music: I listen to music while working and sing along to make it as painful as the tattoo!
Favorite movie(s): Anything I haven't seen.
Favorite TV show(s): I stopped watching TV completely in 1972.
If you were granted one wish? The Reptilians, whose schemes for the New World Order have polluted our planet and led us into endless wars, would be called home to whatever planet they belong on.

I turned 30 and wanted to choose my life career, and decided I wanted to do art full time. Tattooing seemed to me like the most honest way to do that. I particularly savor the fact that it is always unique, custom, and done one by one in collaboration with the recipient. It is a skill that can never be replaced by mechanization or mass- production, and has a tradition as old as human civilization.

1984

I've always specialized in Celtic and Pictish art, bringing the intricate knotwork interlaces of the ancient illuminated manuscripts and carved standing stones to life in skin.

Unnamed stonemasons and monks who brought visions of interlocking spirals and bridle-woven-leather into the fine complex and mysterious art of the Celts and Picts.

My mentor Cliff Raven, because he was my first example of how to interact with the client to draw out from them their dreams and desires, and so to correctly express their inner aesthetics. And Lyle Tuttle, who did the first tattoo I ever saw being done, and made it look too easy! He somehow retains a bemused worldview despite the logic of carny cynicism.

In recent years I have taken up enthusiasm for a dream long-deferred and become an equestrienne. On the days when I am not tattooing I am often found riding my mule, on mountain trails and beaches, enjoying the landscapes of the stunningly beautiful place I live in. It is the perfect antidote for the indoor close-focus hyper-vigilant Celtic tattoos that I find challenging and exhausting. Alternating human contact with animal companionship enriches my life, and inspires my art.

Tattoo Santa Barbara
318 State Street @ Hwy 1
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
1-805-962-7552

Mailing address:
Luckyfish, Inc.
PO Box 777
Santa Barbara, CA 93102-0777

websites:
http://www.luckyfish.com
http://www.luckyfishart.com
http://www.cafeshops.com/luckyfish

Email contact is best: patfish@luckyfish.com

It may be because I have a hard time remembering faces that I find tattoos so helpful. I see them as a profound clue to the nature of the soul of the wearer. By choosing to work with Celtic patterns, I find myself pleased to interact with the people who are attracted to get work from me. I have an aversion to demonic or death images, and a commitment to assist my clients in making life-positive choices that will strengthen them in their ethnic and personal identities.

In a society that increasingly promotes the false individuality of the herd mentality, tattoos still stand apart as the individuating mark. They can be jewelry that cannot be lost or stolen, or they can be the badge of allegiance to clan or country. But they will always be what turns a jackass into a zebra. .