Ria Barrenechea is an artist and tattooer born in Surrey, England. She now makes her home in a rural coastal village in Scotland, and works from a private studio in Glasgow.
Ria has been dedicated throughout her life in making time to create art, using a variety of traditional mediums, and tattooing since 2011.
Passionate about creating custom, one of a kind tattoos, she avoids digital mediums, preferring instead to hand draw each piece with careful consideration to complementing the human form.
Drawing inspiration from nature, such as birds, mammals, insects, and the botanical world, her work focuses on capturing the unique beauty and intricacies of each subject. She is also influenced by the muted colour palettes of the Art Nouveau movement, as well as vintage lithograph prints and natural history books.
In 2022, she was honoured to be approached by a curator at The Burrell Museum in Glasgow to be featured in a short film and interview for a digital exhibition displayed alongside tattooed artifacts of Ancient Egyptian women.