Instructor Arya Shahbaz

Fourteen years has passed since the time I started tattooing, all along never felt bored or tired.

 

Beside being a painter (mainly realism style) and years of teaching fine arts, I have tried many different careers but the art of tattoo has amazed me and held me. Past few years, by attending different courses and seminars, I have decided to turn the years of experience into teaching courses in Helsinki Tattoo Academy.

 

Tattooing was the only job that could hold me after doing and changing many jobs in my life, such as nursing, paramedic, boutique owner, taxi driver, sterile technician, painting and drawing teacher, etc.

During those years, we didn’t have a school or a tattoo course in Finland, and we had to learn self-taught and at home if it wasn’t possible to go to other countries. For me, who had high skills in drawing and painting before that, it took me years to reach the standard of skill in this work.

 

In the last few years, by attending courses, seminars, and tattoo school, I came to the conclusion that if I had learned tattooing at the academy from the beginning, I could reach where I am today in a very short time!