Today we’d like to introduce you to Hannah Oré.
Hi Hannah, so excited to have you with us today. What can you tell us about your story?
I grew in Miami, Florida where I stared to do art quite young with my sister. We would spend endless hours painting in the recreational room with my grandfather in the VA nursing home. My mother wanted us to have a way to share time and connect with him after a severe stroke left his body half paralyzed on the right side, with his speech being largely compromised as well. From this we grew to paint on the doors of the residents of the nursing home and further evolved me going to New World, a visual and performing arts school in Downtown Miami. I worked several jobs unrelated to art while paying for my way through college and after graduating I found myself daydreaming about art again. Bigger ideas I wanted time to share with more people. I had created pieces throughout this time and always accepted commissions along the way, but I wanted follow that calling I had to do more. I quit my wonderful job, with wonderful people and started to make art full time. I did this for a year and to my surprise, I was always busy. The commissions kept coming. I was making money off of my art and had enough time to spend more time in other practices like yoga and aerial acrobatics. After doing my first tattoo on a friend for fun, I got a random call from a shop owner telling me he wanted to meet. In person he said my friend I tattooed showed him the tattoo, my artwork, and he appreciated that I was a fine artist, and if i wanted to learn tattooing, I could work there and start the next day. Since then, its been a whirlwind growing into this new medium of art. It has been such a connective and fun journey. I have the honor to spend time with some incredible humans, and gift them a piece of my art that they love enough to carry them on their bodies forever. With how busy things can get, I always make time for my own personal art. The list of projects never end, including a sketchbook I have been trying to fill with drawings for the last 4 years!
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
Does a perfectly smooth road exist?
Art has always been a constant support in my life that allows the struggles to be bearable. I definitely had my fair share of struggles along the way, coming to terms with life can often have that effect. Creating will forever be my greatest superpowers to cope with these difficulties as they come. Suddenly you can stretch time you thought you didn’t have, sit with your feelings while you create something tangible that represents this time in life. What an amazing opportunity we have as humans to transform struggle into beauty.
Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know about your work?
I am a professional tattoo artist. I specialize in micro-realism, black and gray and fine lines styles. I am also a fine artist as well outside of tattooing. Throughout the year a collect a number of commissions from where I wood burn using a pyrography tool, all the way to painting a mural. I love to explore all creative mediums that call to me or that any project can call upon me to get into. I am known for my clean work and bright colors that I like to include. A piece I am very proud of is a double mastectomy tattoo I did. After surgery, my client asked me to tattoo her chest to help her feel herself and confident in her body again. The planning for that piece was so important to me and I wanted to get it perfect and give her a great experience. The tattoo took two sessions, and we both ended up loving it. It was beyond an honor to be a part of someone’s healing journey like that. It really emphasized to me the profound impact that sharing art with others can have.
I think what sets me apart is my attention to detail in my work and the energetic space I create when you sit in my chair at the tattoo shop. Making others feel safe and comfortable to trust me with their skin and experience permanently altering their bodies. My passion for quality in experience and in art I think always pushes me to do my absolute best each time!
What sort of changes are you expecting over the next 5-10 years?
Honestly I can see a lot of changes coming up. This industry has stayed pretty old school for a long time so I think the pendulum of change swings as it naturally will. I think business structure wise, perhaps there will be more tools and avenues to learn and practice from. For sure the technologies will advance and we will see more artists being their own bosses and supporting their lifestyle by their own means. Trends being the extremes of micro realism and I’ve been seeing a lot of really large scale color pieces that look like oil paintings.
Pricing:
- Tattoos are by piece or sessions are 150/hr
- art commissions are by piece
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