Multi-disciplinary artist, Samantha Darling has a background in Art History and a keen understanding of the zeitgeist. With a plethora of enviable skills and experience as a painter, writer, curator and tattooist, Darling employs her unique visual language and intuitive linework style to create contemporary tattoos and illustrations each with their own unique nod to the past.
Darling’s own tattoo studio, Studio Baby, is a mecca for those who yearn to be blissfully suffocated by all things artistic, referencing the full spectrum of art practices and innovators; spanning Botticelli to vintage Versace, from Bauhaus to Basquiat and Haring. Her work is a museum in itself made up of hand drawn lines that represent a comprehensive catalogue of human creativity in all its forms. Collecting a visual diary of her personal thoughts, experiences, memories, and influences, Samy Baby’s work appeals to a broad range of art aficionados, collectors, and enthusiasts; uniting the art snob with the tattoo junkie to confront and erase all sense of exclusivity in the embrace of true creative expression.
