Hi, I'm Damian Gorski and this is Ushuaia Tattoo studio based in Fulham, London, UK.
I'm the co-owner of this beautiful place.
I love to be here and take care of my customers.
Professionally, I've been tattooing for around five years.
I've always been interested in art but the big part of my life I spent doing snowboarding,
skateboarding and partying a lot.
That was the most important thing for me at that time
but there came the time when I told myself, okay I need to
do something more, I need to draw, I need to put something or what sits in my head on
paper first and then do that art on people on like a tattoo, sort of stuff.
I always felt I need to draw, I need to do, kind of, artistic things.
Apart from tattooing, I'd love to paint a little bit more.
There are many tattoo artists inspiring me at the moment.
I've been always inspired by Dmitriy Samohin's work, Timur Lysenko's work and big names like
Moni Marino or Randy Engelhart, Silvano Fiato, Andy Engel.
My style, my recent style, is like abstract realism.
This is what I am very enjoying to do.
Like colour realism, not much details, more contrast elements
but also I do black and grey realism
so it's very difficult to describe my style because I just do what I do.
If I wasn't a tattoo artist, I would be a DJ.
Not like a rock star, I'm not kind of rock star person but definitely DJing and, you know, electronic music.
The highlight of my career, most satisfying moment in my life,
there was like one year ago when I opened the shop, it was a very difficult moment for me and
finally I'm here, so I'm very proud of this place, of my people, you know, without
them I would never be in this place.
My future plans... what can I say?
I want to have a family. I want to have, like, a nice home where I come back from my work
and feel relaxed, feel safe.
Actually, I reached everything I used to dream about, so, I don't know, everything's come very, very quick
and I'm happy with my life.
That's even more than I would expect - it goes very well, so let's go.
I would say to anyone who wants to be a tattoo artist, you need to dream about this.
You need to spend many hours drawing. You need to come to every single shop asking about apprenticeship,
showing your work, your portfolio. That's going to be working, trust me.
I did exactly same and I had many people, you know, telling me "you're good, you're good,
you need to do this, you need to do that." They support me a lot - they still been doing that.
And now they're my friends, very close friends at the moment,
and you need to just, you know, follow your dreams and everything is possible.