Late June - Early July 2025 - Tattoos, Opapiskaw, Pine Point, The Spirit Sands, and the roses and Lillies in bloom.

 

Hi, thanks for stopping by the blog.  My Name is Bram, and I'm a tattooer from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. here are a few new tattoos and photos around the studio from the last few weeks, a few photos from around the province, and a couple shots from the Winnipeg Folk Fest this last weekend.

A well-healed tattoo of a Peregrine Falcon perched on a bollard.  Scenes that you may see out the window of your parents car when you were young is a theme I really enjoy, power-lines, blackbirds in the reeds, things like that, I love.

A hummingbird moth for a new client, memories of childhood.

A Red Squirrel.

Great Grey Owl

This is a detail of a full-arm project, I recon we'll complete it in the next month or so.  If you have a simple nature theme you'd like to explore in large scale as a tattoo, don't be shy to run your idea by me, I'd be glad to do more large scale stuff.

A cheeky little duck tattoo...

"Photo 51", celebrating women's achievements in science despite men's tendency to act stupid...

A well-healed Swallowtail Butterfly among clusters of flowers, one of my favourite tattoos ever.

Healed Chickadee on a pine bough, another personal favourite.

Prairie Crocuses.  I drew this design from life at the Narcisse Snake dens a couple years back, I'm always happy to play with the Prairie Crocus.

If you scroll back in my posts, you'll find a post of "Available designs", showcasing many of the designs I have available to be tattooed.  I'm always adding to this collection, and am also happy to make custom tattoos.  Email me at bram_adey@hotmail.com with any booking inquiries.

This is my apprentice Myes at work.  Her work is inspired by Tradition wester tattooing of the late 19th and early 20th century, Americana and Japanese themes abound, classy, timeless!  ladymyesxoxo@gmail.com

My Coworker Doxthrasher doing what they do best, three back-to-back days to make a freehand backpiece for a dedicated old client.  doxthrasher@protonmail.com

My coworker Ruth with a little crystal tattoo a few weeks ago, fun, whimsical designs, delicate and light hearted. ruthmtattoo@gmail.com

All of these colour photos were taken at my studio Ritual Winnipeg, I'm so happy with how the studio has shaped up this last year and a half.  We have a great little crew who I'm so inspired by and excited to spend my weeks with.  Visit our website, www.ritualwinnipeg.com to see everyone's work.

You can find me in-studio Tuesday-Friday, 10-6, at:

70 Arthur St - Unit 420

Winnipeg, Manitoba

I went and checked out the Spirit Sands with my younger one.  It had been a while...

Last summer got gobbled up by having just opened Ritual, so this year I've been really enjoying getting out and about in the province, so much getting out... 

Out at the big lake...

On the Brokenhead interpretive trail, the Lady slippers were going off!  I've been to this spot a bunch of times, but never in the heat of summer, I was glad we went!

Opapiskaw in the Whiteshell.

Pine Point

One of my favourite places.

Pileated Woodpecker

Red-Sided Garter Snake

Fred Penner

Hurray for the Riff Raff

And my absolute favourite, Gillian Welch

From Downtown...

...to the West End.

Thanks a lot for checking out the blog.  Send me an email if you'd like to come for a tattoo, feel free to check out my instagram, @bramadey for more tattoo content, or my photography instagram, @this_is_bram_adey for more photos.

January 13th 2025 - The New Year, Tattoos, and Around the Studio

Hi, welcome back to the blog.  I hope the New Year feels as good to you as it does for me.  Things still feel hard, especially with tattooing being slow, and having the studio and all my coworkers to care for, but this new year I feel a sense of calm about the state of things, and I'm excited to be in a moment of focus.

As always, email me at bram_adey@hotmail.com for tattoo bookings.

This client and I have been working together for ten years or more, and so when they asked for a set of knucles a year or two ago, it was a no-brainer.  "kindness" knuckle tattoos for a wonderful old client.

Red Squirrel

Great Grey Owl

These two tattoos, the Great Grey and the Red Squirrel, were both chosen from my books of flash by a new client of mine.  If you'd like to see all my available designs, look back in this blog's history for a post called "Flash Portfolio - Winter 2024 - 25" to see a lot of what is currently available.

Another from my flash designs, A horseshoe and wild clover.

This client is very near to having two full sleeves after ten years of consistent tattooing.  She has come in a couple times a year or so, and I'm so happy and proud of the tattoos we've made together.

Very proud to have made this beautiful dagger and laurel-bough chest tattoo.  Chests are such an honour and responsability to tattoo.  You only get one.

We made this Apple a while back.  The Laurel-bough, Dagger and Apple all have that great esoteric, heavy feel to them while still feeling open-ended, allusory rather than explicit.

A super-powered one!

A cute little whale piece for a mum in my community.

When bookings really slowed down, It was really hard mentally at first,  and I shelved these paintings I had started for a while.  But the last couple weeks I've been back on my routine and it feels nice to see the paintings come-to-being.

In addition to pre-made flash designs, I do lots of custom work, and rarely turn an idea down, so don't be shy, drop me a line!

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One thing that has been a positive about tattooing slowing down a bit is that I've had to take a bit of time as the owner of Ritual Winnipeg (tattoo studio) to begin to develop a bit of a visual identity for the studio distinct of my own art/tattoo identity.  My breakthrough:  colour!  All these colour photos are from around the studio these last couple weeks.

This is Ezra, working on a beautiful floral forearm.

@doxthrasher

They love geese!

Behold: My Stuff

I was hopeful that getting my apprentice Myes started on fake skin would be a smart thing to do, but as might be expected, it's usefulness is very limited... @ladymyes

Ezra's mind!

Myse's colours

@tammykimtattoo

@ladymyes

@ferdelanceee

@alyssamayart

@bramadey 

I own and work at Ritual Winnipeg, 420-70 Arthur street in Winipeg, Manitoba.  We are open Monday-Friday, 10-5.  Stop by if you'd like to check out the studio and say hi (I'm in Tuesday-Friday).

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I think a big part of feeling so good right now has to do with reaching a nice focus-point in the work I'm doing and how to present it, this has always been important to me, whether it was zine, blog, or instagram.  

I realized that this new digital camera i've been using is a synthesis between the point and shoot digital i used to blog with, and my film camera I would make zines with.

When I was first blogging in the mid-aughts, every post would have a photo of a piece of toast or a bowl of oats.  These days, this is my absolute favourite break-fast, toast with nut butter and banana.

Parentally making lunches...

Kate Kitagawa on numbers in East-Asian culture.  Notes while listening to Ideas on CBC.

Shally's cordage

Nothing is cuter than this... 

Since my family got a dog, this is a big part of the blog, Dog-walking photos of the neighbourhood:

Thanks so much for stopping in and checking out the blog.  All the best in this new year!

-Bram