Hello! My name is Mark Wade. I have been tattooing for 12 years now, but if you really want to know, it feels like yesterday was the first awful tattoo. When I started my apprenticeship, I was fired about 50 times. I never realized they were being serious, and just kept opening and closing the shop! By staying consistent, stubborn, and painfully dedicated to being halfway decent, I found myself tattooing alongside the masters I’ve looked up to from the start. 

Finding my roots started in Denton, Texas while working with Remember Orellana, Frank, and DeAnna.  This crew luckily took me under their wings and taught me an incredible amount about art, business, and mannerism. I was able to find art clarity and true understanding, which then lead me to Manhattan!  Denis Sivak was my main man, and I was around the crew of all trades. The big city helped me find my art passion, being color realism. Fusion has a perfect selection of warm, flesh red tones and plenty of complimentary colors to push and pull the colors around. I could rant and rave about colors for hours, I really could.

My wife and I bopped down to Austin for a couple years after, and now, we are finally grounded in Rhode Island! We are built our private studio, with a large garden which provides all reference photos! Can you imagine, having real flowers designed and structured for your specific body! It’s pretty amazing having all of our reference photos come straight from our own backyard. Farm to table style, but with tattoos!