French publishing house Noire Méduse has just released the beautiful Léa Nahon– Carnet 1, a sketchbook by tattoo artist Léa Nahon.
This first volume features a selection of drawings taken from her own sketchbooks, which play a very important part in her life as an artist and through which Léa offers her interpretation of the world. She has developed her own style, including sketches, stencils, collages and sometimes text, with a dominance of black ink. Her illustrations, essentially portraits, are mainly inspired by her own environment. Léa returns to her artistic roots as a tattooer, by offering to ink these pages within the heart of the matter: the skin of her clients. All these designs are transformed into either paintings or tattoos, sometimes even both.
After a short introduction by the editor, this book unveils 64 pages of stunning drawings, the extraordinary world of this tattoo artist with her unique and unmistakeable style. Free from traditional codes of tattooing, Léa Nahon, originally from Paris became a leader in this innovative trend, an important part of the contemporary art dimension of modern tattoos. Indeed, she worked for a long time at “La Boucherie Moderne” (Brussels) one of the main centres of experimental tattooing, before opening her own shop called “L’Usine”, in Liège (Belgium).
You can purchase the book from: www.noire-meduse.com
