Hi, I’m Jenn!   I am one of the co-owners at Forbidden Fruit Tattoos and I am very passionate about the work I create, the support I give to my fellow tattoo artists and community, and the care and consideration I give to my clients as we work through our projects together.  I have a love for a range of art styles and the technical aspects of making art and I love working with clients on custom projects that not only flow and compliment their anatomy, but also considers the type of artwork that speaks to them to give each client a truly custom piece.  I love working on anything from neo-traditional, realism, blackwork, and illustrative designs to coverups, large-scale tattoos, reworks, and almost everything in between.  Longest story short - I love what I do and I can’t wait to make cool things with you!

I have always loved a range of art styles and greatly enjoy being able to explore a broad range of approaches and techniques. I always found a particular attraction to the technical illustrations of plants and anatomy in old books as well as old world etchings of animals and mythical monsters.  Along with these illustrations, I have a deep love for painting which I had pursued professionally for over a decade. I and am drawn to the dark contrast present in baroque paintings as well as the bright colors and fantastical elements in dark surrealism and hyperrealism.  In short - I love the macabre and the beautiful, I love the technical information found in the lines describing an image, and I love the impact color and shadow has in evoking a feeling in a work of art as well as in the world around us.  Before tattooing, this love led me to pursue higher education in painting, drawing, and art history.  Born and raised in the rural parts of Southern Indiana, I moved to Athens in 2015 to attend graduate school at UGA where I would eventually teach figure anatomy in drawing and sculpture.  As a painter, I became known for my award-winning large-scale oil paintings and have exhibited my work internationally.  Along with these pursuits in my own career as an artist, I have always felt at my best being in a supporting role helping other artists, and so have found myself working in and managing various galleries and collaborative artist projects over the years.  Having imagined being a tattoo artist in my youth, my career path eventually circled back around to lead me into this industry at the end of 2019, and I haven’t looked back!