CONAN LEA

Resident artist Conan Lea offers you 25 years of experience as an all-custom tattoo artist. Hundreds of custom tattoos, 20,000+ hours in nearly every style. He applies wisdom gleaned from tattooing at dozens of tattoo conventions as an artist, client, speaker, competition judge, and award winner. He is continually and intensively trained in visual storytelling by many of the world's best illustrators. He is a student of his fellow tattoo artists, those great leaders of the craft spread across the planet. As an amateur oil painter and a scholar of the creative mindset, he feels qualified to make great tattoos with you.

In 2012 Conan joined forces with a tattoo client-turned-friend to develop a set of productivity apps that eliminate the need for paper release/consent forms for the body modification industry. Voluta Digital was born, and Tattoo Release Forms App and Piercing Release Forms App were warmly received by their industries in five countries. Conan likes the time, energy, and litigation these apps have saved for artists, but he mostly loves the trees the apps preserve, more than 200,000 per year!

Conan is obsessed with Earth as a wild living entity. ( If he could math, he would have been a biologist.) He is endlessly awed by the elegant relationships of flora and fauna, cycles of ocean and wind, light, chemistry, and the creatures that eat one another. Through mountain biking, backcountry hiking, kayaking, scuba, and photography, he explores the interwoven magic of this miracle planet.