From the lab
to the studio.

I'm Bryson. I grew up in Central California between farm fields and the coast, studied at UC Berkeley, and spent years in bioremediation labs, including cleanup work after the BP oil spill.

Lab work taught me to look closely. Diatoms are radially symmetrical. Mycelium branches like lace. I was drawing that stuff in the margins of my notebooks long before I picked up a needle.

I started tattooing during Covid, handpoke first, then machine. These days I work out of Lair Atelier on Armitage in Logan Square, Chicago, and do guest spots in LA and New York a few times a year.

Most of what I tattoo is botanical, gothic floral, thorny ornamental, marine and mushroom work. When I'm not tattooing I'm usually out foraging.