Rodney Kent Nesbitt

I’m from Newcastle originally but moved to Norfolk as a kid, I started tattooing properly when I moved to Cornwall in 2006, just on friends from home as I’d done a few tattoos while was in jail, I have my last machine for my last prison sentence, I smuggled it out as it has sentimental value it was what made me who I am. being had I not of gone to prison in 1999 I wouldn’t be tattooing now, I decided to do it properly and when I moved to Cornwall started working from a studio called flying colours, I received my first license to work at this studio in 2009 and it all started from there on, it was a sea side town called st Austell , about 10mile outside of Newquay so we would have the over spill from there in the summer being the next town over from Cornwalls main seaside attractions, so I had to do whatever was on the board back in early 2000s there wasn’t much custom stuff in Cornwall it was flash off the sheet, so I guess I started as a flash artist, i started tattooing at the Plymouth tattoo convention, the bull dog bash which was a hells angels event that was held every yr, I got to go coz one artist that work for my bosses chapter west coast decide he didn’t want to do it anymore and I got the gig, nearly 50:000 people turned up to this gig every yr and I ended up going four yrs on the trot and what fun and what a lot of money in 3an a half days, I was more than happy, so being a flash artist I kinda had to do a bit of everything to keep the peace, or if I couldn’t do it , it was like I was costing the shop money so I had to push myself to do stuff I wouldn’t normally do, but given the outcome, I didn’t do to bad, I left this studio in 2015 as my life wasn’t my own and myself and the boss started to clash, we did anyway but we started to in a big way , so it was for the best that I left and moved back to Norfolk, I worked at a back end studio called 420 for a few months and then decided to open my own and call it pain is love in 2016 and then had that till 2019, I had a girlfriend working with me in my second yr and found out she’d been stealing from day one! Stole from clients, by taken payment in full and then never completed the work, I ended up apologising to them all and offering to finish the work for free just to keep people happy, after I explained it to people they understood, so it made life a lil easier but I still felt the name of my studio was tarnished, I sore a job offer on Instagram for the studio I work at now, part time, guest spot or full time position. After the first wk of being there on a guest spot I was asked would I like to join the gang here full time, I thought about it and then thought again when I got back to Norfolk, it felt like I’d already moved and I was doing guest spots in Norfolk, this went on for a while , back and fourth from one studio to the other, and then I made the choice to move to chesterfield full time and let my studio go, I meant that I wouldn’t have two rents anymore or two electric bills, two council tax bill, two Internet bill and so on it meant a bit of freedom by moving to chesterfield to workout of 2019 best voted studio in chesterfield for tattooing called Pierce of art in August of last yr full time as I had then moved to chesterfield,got myself a lil two up two down for me and the dog, and here I am nearly in my and I’ve nearly been at this new studio for a yr! Great gang of people to work with, yer we all have are moments and some girls are drama queens but there harmless really. Oh and my claim to fame is that I did the very first tattoo addiction on channel 4 in 2013 when I was still working out of Cornwall, it still pops up on more four from time to time, and I think to myself” just look how far you’ve come and how far you can go. Thank you for taking the time to read this. Rodney-Kent Nesbitt