New tattoos - Sept/Oct 2026 - Winnipeg, Manitoba

Monarch Butterfly tattoo - Inner-forearm

Hi, welcome to the blog, My name is Bram, and I've been tattooing in Winnipeg since 2010.  I make black and grey tattoos, often nature-based, in a traditionally inspired, naturalistic style.  If you'd like to get tattooed, you can email me at bram_adey@hotmail.com

I make primarily custom tattoos, but am also always creating new tattoo flash designs, available to be tattooed any time.  Right now i'm in the middle of designing a large set of manitoba nature-inspired tattoo flash designs called "Our Wild World", as well as having a more random assortment of available designs.  

Our Wild World

Portraits of Manitoba's Natural World

In addition to more traditional machine-made tattoos, I also do stick and poke tattoos of iconographic symbols based on pictographic languages and other systems of symbols, collected across the years of my career as an artist.  You can see my set of signs and symbols here:

Signs and Symbols

from

Across the Ages and Around the World

Without further adieu, here aer some new tattoos I've made across the last month or so. 

Arctic Tern - bird tattoo - Back of upper-arm

Pitcher hand tattoo - stick and poke

Floral Tattoo - Lilacs - outer-forearm

Jack Pine tree tattoo - chest/shoulder

Canadian Shield Landscape tattoo - inner-forearm

White Admiral butterfly tattoo - Outer-forearm/wrist

Hand tattoo by J.R.Harper

Stinging Nettle floral tattoo - Inner-forearm/Wrist

Bison Head tattoo - Inner-forearm

Damselfly dragonfly tattoo - Upper-arm

Crane bird tattoo - Top of wrist

Crane bird tattoo - Top of wrist

Crane bird tattoo - Top of wrist

Raccoon tattoo - Shin

Swallow tattoo - Outer forearm

Squirrel tattoo flash designs - intended for chest/sternum/shoulder

for 

"Our Wild World"

This pair of designs was inspired by the little red squirrels darting across the path as I have been jogging along.  I think this long red squirrel design would make a great little chest/collarbone kind of tattoo, then came the idea of the more diamond shaped one for a centre-chest/sternum kind of design.  

I've been meaning for ages to dig into this book "Lore and Lure of Outer Space", and finally did it, took some time to make notes from it about the days of the week/planets and the Zodiac.  I've added the designs to my "Signs and Symbols" collection, intended as stick and poke tattoos, mainly for fingers and the like... 

Super cool, I definitely am glad to have held onto lore and lure for all these years.

It's literally getting so crazy...

Ye olde work space

I'm kinda trying to make the most of the end of the warm season, getting out and photographing nautre and going for nice comfortable runs before it gets gnarly out for a few months.... 

Thanks so much for checking out the work, like I mentioned earlier, if you'd like to come get tattooed by me, or set up a consultaiton to discuss your ideas, email me at bram_adey@hotmail.com or stop by the studio:

Ritual Winnipeg

420 - 70 Arthur st.

Winnipeg, MB

R3B 1G7

Tuesday-Friday

10-6

July 2026 - Tattoos, flash and summer wildlife photography

Hi, welcom to the blog.  My name is Bram Adey, and I've been tattooing in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada for the last sixteen years.  I make all manner of tattoos, custom or flash, often nature themed.  If you'd like to explore a tattoo idea, email me at bram_adey@hotmail.com to get the ball rolling. 

White Throated Sparrow tattoo - Inner-arm

Bison tattoo - Chest

Crayfish tattoo - Inner-arm

White-lined sphinx moth - Wrist

Monarch Butterfly tattoo - Stomach

Pussy-willow and pocket knife tattoo - Calf

Jack-pine tattoo - Calf

Pine-cone and Garter snake tattoo - forearm

Snake and Chrysanthemum tattoo - Thigh

The Better part of the work I do is smalleer-scale one-shot tattoos that take around an hour or so, this snake and chrysanthemum tattoo is a bigger custom piece that took two, two hour sessions or so. 

Sun and Moon tattoos - Inner forearm

In addition to traditional machine-made tattoos, i also work by hand relatively regularly, this sun and moon combo were made in the stick-and-poke style, a couple years apart. 

Our Wild World

Portraits of the wild things of our natural world

Our Wild World is a large set of tattoo designs I'm working on celebrating Manitoba flora/fauna/fungi.  Most of the tattoos I posted above were chosen from this set of flash.  Here is a little smattering of designs from the set that I haven't tattooed yet, but would love to!

Chickadee tattoo flash design

Mallard Ducks in flight - Tattoo flash design

Monarch butterfly alight on Milkweed - Tattoo flash design

Monarch Butterflies - Tattoo flash designs

Painted turtle - Tattoo flash design

Mallard duck - Tattoo flash design

Garter snake - Tattoo flash design

Kestrel - Tattoo flash design

Northern widow - Tattoo flash design

Signs and Symbols

from

Around the World and Across the Ages

Signs and Symbols is a collection of amuletic tattoo designs I've collected across the last ten years or so from a huge variety of sources from ancient mesopotamia to 20th century North america.

Here are some new designs i've been working on the last couple weeks.  I make these tattoos on fingers and hands in the stick and poke style (no machines), and freehand (no stencil).  Drop me an email at bram_adey@hotmail.com if you'd like to have one/some of these or similar tattoos made for you.  

The Suits and their relations to the seasons, elements, and archetypal ideas

Ornamental Finger tattoos - Stick and Poke tattoo designs

Ornamental Finger tattoos - Stick and Poke tattoo designs

Thank you som much for checking out the work, here are some nature photos from the last month or so for your viewing pleasure, have a great day!