Tattoos by Bram Adey: winnipeg tattoos

Monday, September 07, 2026

New Tattoos - August 2026 - Bram Adey, WInnipeg, Manitoba

Hi, welcome to the blog, my name is Bram Adey, and I've been tattooing in Winnipeg for sixteen years. I make traditionally inspired black and grey tattoos. My work is often nature inspired, and specifically focused on the main species of flora and fauna of the area of Manitoba between the turtle mountains and the Winnipeg river.

You can find me at:

Ritual Winnipeg tattoo studio

420 - 70 Arthur street

Winnipeg, Manitoba

R3B 1G7

E-mail me at:

bram_adey@hotmail.com

for Winnipeg tattoo bookings and consultations.

Prairie Sage

Cedar

Wild Rose

A set of ornamental finger tattoos. the tattoos are small, simple ornaments on the cuticles of the nails and were made in the stick and poke style.

Finger Ornaments - Stick and Poke

a large black and grey floral tattoo of peonies on a shoulder-cap. the black and grey floral tattoo is in a fineline black and grey style with a super fine black out line and smooth, dramatic black and gery shading.

Peony

A fineline black and grey floral tattoo of a lady's slipper flower on an upper arm. black and grey floral tattoo.

Yellow Lady's Slipper

a simple black and grey tattoo of a windswept jack pine tree on the back of a calf. black and grey tree tattoo.

Jack Pine - After Tom Thompson

Pileated Woodpecker

Skull and Chokecherries

a large lower-back tattoo of bleeding heart flowers reaching across from one side to the other and up into the center-back. the black and grey floral tattoo is in a fineline traditional style with dramatic black and grey shading.

Bleeding Hearts

a small finger tattoo of a sigil meaning "two lives entwined". stick and poke finger tattoo

Two Lives Entwined - After Kotch (1953)

a small ornamental finger tattoo made in the stick and poke style.

Flower/Sunset - Stick and Poke

Thanks a lot for checking out the tattoos, If you'd like to come get tattooed, or if you'd like to book a consultation to explore your tattoo ideas together, email me at bram_adey@hotmail.com to get the ball rolling.

Much of the work you see me post here or on my instagram comes from or is inspired by my in-progress flash collection "Our Wild World". Here are a few available designs I've been working on the last little while.

Barn Swallows

Butterflies

Red Admiral

White Admiral

Tiger Swallowtail

In Addition to Our Wild World, I've also been actively working on my collection of iconographic stick and poke designs "Signs and Symbols", and I'm currently working on some celestially inspored additions to the collection.

You can find me at my studio, Ritual Winnipeg, from Tuesday to Friday, 10am-6pm. I share the space with four other artists:

Alyssa May makes eclectic, nerdy tattoos in a variety of styles.

Lady Myes who makes tasteful western traditional tattoos both fine and bold.

Darny who makes fineline, microrealistic and gothic inspired black and grey tattoos

and

Abrielle, who makes both western and eastern inspired stick and poke tattoos.

Here are a few fun photos from around the studio.

On the First Friday of every month, you can stop by the studio from 5-9 for an open-studio and walk-in tattooing. You can meet the artists and peruse our portfolios, as well as getting to see the space and suss out the vibe.

Some tattoo flash portfolios on display for First-Fridays.

Thanks a lot for looking, here are a few nature photos and random bits from life for you!

Milkweed

Painted turtles

Viceroy

Sparrow among the Mugwort

Stinging Nettle

Moth on Cornflower

Monday, February 23, 2026

Tattoos and Flash - February 2026

Hi, Welcome to my blog. My Name is Bram and I've been tattooing in Winnipeg for the last sixteen years. I make traditionally inspired fineline black and grey tattoos, often nature themed. I do lots of Birds, Floral tattoos and Animals.

I do both custom tattoos and have a wealth of tattoo flash designs to choose from or be inspired by. I'm always taking new clients, and you can book a tattoo or consultation appointment by emailing me at bram_adey@hotmail.com.

A fineline black and grey tattoo of a small sparrow foraging on the ground for seeds.

Sparrow tattoo - Forearm

A fineline black and grey tattoo on the back of a thigh of a peony flower surrounded by thin, elegant black flames.

Peony and Flames - Thigh tattoo

A fineline black and grey bird tattoo of a tropical bird with long ornamental tail feathers and a pretty patttern in it's feathers.

Tropical Bird tattoo - Shoulder

A western traditional style tattoo of a raspberry plant with fineline raspberries and lush, bold leaves.

A western traditional tattoo of a black and grey scorpion.

Scorpion tattoo - Back of Forearm

A black and grey tattoo of a loon centred on a chest. The loon's back faces the viewer as it raises it's body up out of the water with it's wings outstretched.

Loon - Chest tattoo

A photograph of a tattooed shoulder, trapezious and neck. The shoulder is capped with fineline clouds, billowing up to fill the shoulder, with a sprig of sweetgrass running along the trapezious and up onto the neck.

Sweetgrass and Prairie clouds - Neck and shoulder tattoos

A fineline Black and Grey floral tattoo filling the front of a shoulder. the peony opens to fill out the shoulder and spills out onto the chest with slender, dark leaves.

Peony - Floral tattoo

A fineline black and grey floral tattoo of two bunches of lilac flowers filling an inner forearm. the flowers are rendered simply with strong fine lines and are supported by elegant dark leaves.

Lilac tattoo - Forearm

A fineline black and grey tattoo of three sprigs of wheat on an outer forearm. the seed heads of the wheat are rendered in a strong fineline style with minimal shading and supported by bolder stems and elegant black leaves.

Wheat tattoo - Outer Bicep

An outer-bicep tattoo of three coneflowers in a fineline black and grey style. The flowers are realistic looking, with super fine lined flower heads and deep elegant leaves and stems supporting them.

Coneflower tattoo - Outer Bicep

An inner-forearm tattoo of a flower-head of geraniums with fineline flowers and bold, rich leaves.

Geranium - Floral tattoo - Inner forearm

A view of the inner-arm parts of a full-sleeve tattoo showing an inner-forearm of big bluestem grass and an upper-inner arm of a spruce bough. the tattoos are made in a fineline black and grey style featuring long elegant lines, both ultra thin and a little bolder in the stems and cones.

Inside of tattoo sleeve - Bluestem and Spruce

A detail photo of an inner forearm tattooed with big bluestem grasses on the inner forearm and a large Spruce bough on the upper-inner arm. the tattoos are in an elegant fineline black and grey style with strong black and grey shading and fine-elegant linework.

Bluestem and Spruce - Sleeve tattoo

A fineline black and grey tattoo of a snowberry plant on an outer forearm. The tattoo is big and flowes across the outer forearm filling it entirely with branches of a snowberry tree. there are finely lined white berries and bolder, rich leaves to support them.

Snowberry tattoo - Outer forearm

A fineline black and grey tattoo of a spruce bough filling an upper inner arm and flowing out to the front of the arm and filling the inner-elbow. The spruce needles are rendered in a strong fine line and the cones are with a bold contrasty style.

Spruce tattoo - Inner to Outer Bicep

A tattoo of a kingfisher bird on a chest/collar bone. The bird is diving across the chest with it's wings outstretched but slightly tucked in in a diving posture. The tattoo is rendered in a western traditional style with strong black linework and shading while still being naturalistic in it's rendering.

Kingfisher - Collar bone tattoo

A fineline black and grey tattoo of a butterfly on a hand. The little butterfly is very fine in style with thin lines and bold/elegant patterning.

Butterfly - Hand tattoo

A large western traditional tattoo of an osprey filling an outer-thigh. the osprey clutches a fish in it's talons with it's wings upstretched in flight, showing off the beautiful, bold pattern of it's wing feathers and belly.

Osprey - Thigh tattoo

Osprey tattoo - Thigh

A fineline black and grey tattoo of a black spruce bough reaching from the upper outer arm to the inner forearm. The spruce needles are rendered in a fine line with smooth soft shading, while the cones are in a bolder traditional style with dark grey shading.

Black Spruce tattoo - Upper arm

Black spruce tattoo - upper arm

A black and grey tattoo of a morel mushroom on a forearm. the tattoo is of a solitary mushroom in a western traditional style with a clean strong black outline and strong black and grey shading. the mushroom is nestled among some twigs and other debris.

Morel Mushroom tattoo - Forearm

An inner-forearm tattoo of a coffee plant. the plant is represented as a single branch, straight along the inner-forearm with elegant leaves and fineline open flowers and berries along it's stem.

Coffee plant tattoo - Inner forearm

A thigh tattoo of a fox dipping it's toes in a pond. The fox is standing among wetland plants as it explores the edge of the pond.

Fox in the wetlands - Thigh tattoo

A black and grey outer-bicep tattoo of a pomegranate fruit. the fruit is split open with it's seeds exposed, a few seeds lay around. the fruit is rendered in a western traditional style with strong black lines and dark shading, while the seeds are rendered with a super fine black line and soft grey shading.

A simple floral tattoo on a back of an upper-arm. The flowers are rendered with a super fine black line and the leaves are in a bolder traditional style.

Floral tattoo - Back of arm

An inner forearm tattoo of Flax flowers. The floral tattoo is simple and formal in the center of the forearm and is rendered in a fineline black and grey style, with slender, elegant black leaves and smooth, soft flowers.

Flax Flowers - Inner forearm tattoo

A fineline black and grey tattoo of the bough of a cherry tree, with fineline flowers and traditionally rendered cherries. the leaves flip around in an elegant way, the flowers bloom up towards the sun and the cherries hang down low.

Cherry tree tattoo - Upper-outer arm

Most of these tattoos are custom pieces, but a good little selection of them are also designs that were chosen from my extensive collection of tattoo "flash", designs that are ready and available to be tattooed. The following are part of a new body of available designs I've been working on called "Our Wild World". This collection is meant to become a comprehensive cross-section of plants, animals and fungi of Manitoba's natural environment. All of these designs are available to be tattooed.

The winter weasel

This flash project is a real joy to work on, and I'm so grateful to already have had a chance to tattoo many of the new designs.

As always, thanks from the bottom of my heart for checking out my blog and getting tattooed by me. Here are a few photos from around my place and Winnipeg generally. I've not been doing too much photography lately, because it's just too danged cold! but we did get that one spectacular day recently with rhyme ice in the morning and fog in the evening, that made for a spectacular day of photos.

Thanks again,

Bram