Amy
She/Her
Amy is the owner and founder at PIINK. Amy is currently living and working in Barcelona, Spain. She returns to the bay every 2-3 months to tattoo at PIINK. You can subscribe to her newsletter to be alerted of travel dates.
Amy is a was born in Berkeley, CA and started tattooing in Portland, Oregon, in 2009. She did her apprenticeship under Rio Degennarro of Oregon’s oldest running tattoo shop, Sea Tramp, before moving to Family Tradition Tattoo. Amy worked under the Eddy family at Family Tradition for five years. Amy then moved to Los Angeles for a year before returning to her home in the bay where she opened up her first shop, Pretty In Ink, in 2015. Amy wanted to create a comfortable and welcoming place to practice her craft and host her clients, and she created that at PIINK. Amy is very proud of what PIINK has become over the years and the amazing artists she has had the pleasure of hosting.
Amy specializes in American Traditional as well as botanical illustration style tattoos. She enjoys dark, weird, feminine, and magical themes. Amy enjoys tattooing flowers, herbs, fungi, fogs, beasties, kewpies,, fairies, mermaids, pin ups, lady faces, and more.
Alex
They/He
Alex was born and raised in Oakland, he is an illustrator with a wide range of media under his belt. They specialize in pen and ink work , botanical illustration, figurative/portrait/pin-up styles, and vibrant palettes. Alex earned their degree in illustration from Academy of Art in San Francisco and has been tattooing since 2016.
hax or Seamus
They/He
hax grew up in Southern California and moved to the Bay Area in 2010. They also go by the name Seamus. He is inspired by zines, folk art, traditional tattoo imagery, weird junk, nature, contemporary tattooing, mason jars, and queer identity. They see their work as whimsical and playful. He dabbles in many crafts outside of tattooing, including embroidery, paper making, and gardening. hax began tattooing in 2017 and is stoked to have found a home at Pretty in Ink. In their free time he likes to cook and go on trail runs in the hills and hang out with their dog Twinkle.
Vineha
She/They
Vineha is a POC tattoo artist in the Bay Area :) She was born and raised in India, and after spending more than a decade in academia and working a corporate job, she quit it all in 2022 to devote herself full time to her love of art and pursuing a full time career in tattooing.
Connecting with people, listening to them and understanding their needs and passions is important to her. She strongly believes that these are the reasons that she loves to collaborate with people to make their tattoo dreams come true!
She loves tattooing in color! She is very detail oriented and is attracted to clean designs, patterns and symmetry, elements in nature, cute and playful designs - all of which you will see reflected in her work.
When she’s not tattooing, she loves road tripping with her husband and 2 dogs, cooking, eating, loves anything at trader joes, being by the ocean and working on her other artistic passions - Pysanky! See more of her pysanky @starrykites on IG!
Clare
She/Her
Clare Eva is a tattoo artist focused on Japanese traditional tattooing, with a deep dedication to studying Japanese folklore and the imagery found in Ukiyo e works. Her work is inspired by color, symbolism, and organic movement.
She spends much of her time painting and drawing on paper, allowing ideas to develop naturally through repetition and observation
While she is largely self-taught, Clare is grateful to have learned from many teachers along the way. She holds deep respect for her mentors and the generations of artists before them, and approaches tattooing as a lifelong practice rooted in learning, discipline, and gratitude.