“Seasons of Bethlehem” 36x72in Oil on canvas. 2024-2025 I was commissioned to paint this landscape of Bethlehem, CT for a very wonderful patron who has one of the most beautiful views from her home there. As it gets moved from the studio this weekend and hung in her home, I’m excited to share what I’ve been working on over the last year! From left to right, each season flows into the next as the time across the sky moves from sunrise to sunset.  The landscape includes literal

by Rachel Eleanor Brown (Review Originally published in Tattoo Today summer 2022) Let’s take a look into this book…Shane Enholm’s Tattoo Machine Discourse Volume One. Once I bit into it, I ate it up quick. Shane’s first volume of conversation discusses tattoo machine collecting as a journey to self-enlightment. He reminds us that to begin learning, we must first enact the mantra on knowing we do not know. The philosophy laid forth from the onset of Shane’s book, credited to

In the early 2000s there was a kid in Arlington, Vermont sneaking peeks at this wild and crazy book published in 1979. That kid was me! It belonged to our brother, Sam, who was the only person I had ever known at that point to get tattooed. He was a graffiti artist, a breakdancer, a drummer, a skater; he loved thrash metal as much as he loved hip hop and blues. He influenced me in the best way, because he showed me early on that an artist can create all kinds of things. He