Shawn has been tattooing since 2006. He works in many styles, but prefers more illustrative tattoo projects.

As a fine artist, Shawn's body of work focuses primarily on painting, portraiture, and documenting contemporary tattoo culture. Barber’s intimate renditions of tattooed individuals balance both meticulous brush strokes and loose energy. Figurative in nature, these large paintings take on abstractions with explosive colors, meandering lines and paint dripping down the canvas. In 'The Tattooed Portraits Series', Shawn has created an homage and study of modern tattooing through painting portraits of historical tattooists and artists, tattooist's at work, their tools and environments. Documentation through present day genre painting, Shawn has captured tattooing from a personal perspective, as a tattooist and painter, reflecting this experience with respect and admiration for the history of tattooing and the individuals that define it’s rich past.

For tattoo and commissioned art inquiries, Contact Shawn directly via email: sdbarber@gmail.com

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