Sam Barber

colour fantasy realism

A person with long reddish hair and tattoos sits on a spiral staircase beside a wall filled with shelves of ink bottles.

Sam Barber specialises in colour fantasy realism. She has been tattooing since 2013 and in that time has travelled the world working alongside the best artists in the industry. She has won many awards at the most prestigious conventions across the globe.


Sam works mainly on large scale pieces, collaborating on ideas with her customer to create beautiful fantasy artworks that flow with the natural composition of the body. Her clients mainly come with loose ideas from books, music, games and cinema, which Sam's creativity brings to life. Reimagining stories and blending aesthetics such as sci-fi, dystopia, horror and renaissance.


Sam draws inspiration for her designs from her love of literature and cinema, focusing mainly on human and fantasy characters, who they are and what world they live in, to create new storylines and cinematic aesthetics using her unique colour palettes and limitless imagination. Creating beauty in dark worlds and magic in the ordinary.

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20-22 Mary St, Cheetham Hill, Manchester M3 1DZ

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A professional tattoo studio with dark wood floors, dim lighting, and several treatment chairs arranged in rows.A dimly lit interior space with amber pendant lights, a spiral staircase, exposed brick, and a wooden loft structure.