You need to admire who you apprentice for. What is some advice that you have for people who want to pursue a career as a tattoo artist? A random idea that appears in my head will be on someone’s body because they like it so much. That is probably the coolest part of being a tattooer. There are a million amazing tattooers in town, but I felt like I haven’t seen a lot of artists in town doing some of the weird cutesy type of stuff that I like to do. There are a lot of rules in traditional tattooing that make total sense, but at the same time I didn’t like that it is so heavily rule-based, and I don’t exactly like rules per say. Sometimes I fall into a more neotraditional, other times a more traditional. What draws you to the neotraditional style? Everyone was doing them black, and because I was bored during quarantine, I decided to get funky with some colors. He was who I got all of those wood pieces from. It was like tattooing your walls with pieces of wood. The wood pieces were inspired by this page I found on Instagram because a lot of these tattoo artists I follow were getting a lot of crazy traditional designs cut out of wood to hang up on their walls. I have no idea how she tattoos the way she does. With Carrie, I love sitting and watching her tattoo. He was and still is a great tattoo teacher. Without him, I would not be tattooing at all. Shauncey helped me to get where I am now. Locally, definitely both of them, they are both in the American Traditional tattoo realm. She has the cleanest lines of any tattoo artist I have ever seen. Obviously Shauncey Fury, but also another good friend of mine, Carrie Daniels over at Hula Moon.
Can you tell me a little bit about that? Do you have any tattoo heroes now, or someone you look up to in the industry? I’m the middle child, the “black sheep” you could say, and the tattoo career was just really calling my name. I saw all of these tattoo artists put really cool permanent art on people. I was 13, and it was when all of those tattoo reality shows started. Check out her artistic repertoire on her Instagram What got you into tattooing, or was there a specific moment when you realized it was what you wanted to do? In addition to tattooing, Victoria also creates painted wood art. While some may describe her work as neotraditional, she likes to describe her work as “cutesy traditional.” Feed your tattoo curiosity with a trip to the Pensacola Tattoo Expo from April 30 to May 2 at the Sanders Beach-Corinne Jones Resource Center. Tattoo artist Victoria Billingsley at Sacred Grounds Tattoo Studio is a young tattoo artist bringing a little something new to the tattoo scene here in Pensacola. With the Pensacola Tattoo Expo fast approaching, it only seemed appropriate that we shine a light on one of our local tattoo artists this month.
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