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Amber Thorpe: Meet the artist

Tattooing since 2000 From Niagara Falls, Ontario Trained with Charlie “Harley Charlie” Duarte at Way Cool Tattoos Style Bright, bold colours are what people most know me for. What’s popular in your shop right now? We do custom work, so it’s definitely a mix. But in Halifax anything to do with the sea, the ocean, […]

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Kirt Silver: Meet the artist

Tattooing Since 2003 Trained with Mike LeBlanc at Iron Ink in Truro Style I’ve had to become fairly well-rounded as I was the only person in my shop for the first seven years. I can do big black-and-grey works, traditional Japanese, full-colour, new school. At this point I’ve become well known for my colour realistic […]

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Vintage glory

Every Canadian schoolboy and girl knows Canadian confederation took place on July 1, 1867. At that time, Halifax was a bustling port city. This was long before the bridges, but Samuel Cunard had already started a steamboat ferry service 30 years earlier between Halifax and Dartmouth to get people across the harbour. The main streets […]

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Handmade romance

Handmade romance featured in musicians Jenn Grant and Daniel Ledwell’s rustic wedding (Ledwell proposed to Grant in the same barn they got married in, after hammering two pieces of copper into rings). Grant picked her own wildflowers and red berries, golden leaves and purple asters for her bridesmaids. A close friend made the bright red […]

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