Step into
the garden.

Everything you're looking at is her own hand — her paintings lead, the tattoos follow. Step up to the cabinet: tell it how you feel and what you carry, and it answers with the seed of a piece — which is exactly how a tattoo with Gia begins.

✦ The Garden Cabinet ✦

one token, one card drawn — the seed of your tattoo

the deck lies face-down… the garden is listening…

The token

Insert it here

How do you feel?

— unturned —

What do you require?

— unturned —

What do you seek?

— unturned —

Every seed here is a starting point — add to it, adjust it, make it yours. Every piece is two hands or larger. The design itself is finished together, in the room.

Drawn in
the garden

Gia Rose
Neo-Romantic Tattoo · Slip Nº 000

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✦ The card drawn for you is ✦

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Motif
Mood
Notes
Scale

Make it yours — add or adjust any detail:

A seed, not a stencil — bring your story, and the design is finished together, in the room, on the day. One client a day: yours.

Book this piece

The Artist

Drawn by hand, worn for life.

Gia Rose has been tattooing for 23 years. Her style is Neo-Romantic — neo-traditional bones and ornamental detail, with Art Deco framing and traditional tattoo design running underneath: pearl-halo ladies with weeping eyes, flowers with eye centres, lambs, wolves and foxes, in gold, black and dusky red.

She works by day-rate exclusivity: one client a day. The day is bought whole, and her full focus belongs to the one person in the chair — no conveyor belt, no one waiting behind you.

And the work is collaborative storytelling. Pieces are translated from your stories, memories, emotions and myths — she draws the first version, then the design is refined together, in person, on the day.

The golden lady — an original painting. The same hand tattoos her.

Beyond skin, she makes illustrations and fine art, and teaches seminars for other artists. You may know her from Ink Master and Ink Master: Angels — the television was a chapter; the drawing never stopped.

She works from a private studio in Philadelphia and travels to a handful of cities through the year.

Booking

It starts with an email.

Booking is by email only — no walk-ins, no DMs to chase. Tell her the story behind the piece, the placement, and the city, and the Rose team writes back with days.

Bring a storyThe memory, the feeling, the myth you can't put down. References help — every piece is two hands or larger — but the story is the brief.
The design is refined togetherGia draws from your story first; then you sit down together, in person, on the day, and finish it between you.
One client, one daySessions are full days, noon to five, at $2,000 a day — and the day is exclusively yours. Large work is drawn across sittings, about six weeks apart to heal.
Leave a deposit$1,000 holds your days. It's non-refundable, and it comes off your final session.

Philadelphia
Texas
Michigan
New York
Denver
Los Angeles

Dates for each city are shared by email — write and ask what's open.

giarosebookings@gmail.com

The Face · Signature Work

She appears in almost everything.

The face, up close — pearl-bead halo, tears falling, from her painting of the weeping lady.

The lady is Gia's signature: sorrowful, ornate, a little haunted — black curls, a halo of pearls, eyes that weep beautifully. She moves between the paintings and the skin, drawn fresh for every client: the pearls, nightshades and filigree rearranged around the story she's about to be carried through.

Pieces like this usually take one to two full days, depending on size and how much ornament the story needs.

The Goblet · A Favourite

The vampire's toast.

Clawed hands, a glass of something red, black filigree framing — hers, unmistakably.

Some pieces become calling cards. The goblet is one of hers: dusky red wine, pale clawed fingers, and that iron-lace frame she returns to again and again.

If this is the vein your own piece runs in, say so when you write — she'll know exactly what you mean.

Prints & Flash · The Rose Circle

The paintings come first.

The weeping lady — pearl halo, a red string web in her hands, gold eye-flowers watching.

The lamb — glowing against the black, under a small moon.

Alongside the tattooing, Gia paints — illustrations and fine art in the same world as the skin work: ladies with pearl halos and weeping eyes, nightshades with eye centres, the lamb, the wolf, the fox, all framed like Art Deco relics.

Her paintings become prints for the wall and flash — finished illustrations, ready to claim as tattoos. Both land first in the Rose Circle, her private list: print and flash drops, and open travel dates, go there before they are mentioned anywhere else.

Join the Rose Circle

On Skin · Portfolio

The drawings, worn.

The same hand, on skin. Tap any piece to stand in front of it.

Every piece starts as a painting or a drawing before it ever touches skin — sleeves, backs, thighs and sternums, built to move with the body wearing them.

Keep wandering

The paintings, up close

Everything down here is Gia's own work — and these days it starts as a painting. Her illustrations lead: ladies in pearl halos with weeping eyes, nightshades with eye centres, the lamb, the wolf and the fox, in gold, black and dusky red.

The process

How a piece is born

A tattoo with Gia is collaborative storytelling — your story, translated. It works like this, and the little cabinet at the top of this page is honestly where it starts:

Bring a story

A memory, a grief, a devotion, a myth you can't put down. That — not a screenshot of someone else's tattoo — is the brief.

The cabinet answers with a seed

How you feel, what you require, what you seek — the dials turn, the bell rings, and a first shape surfaces: a motif, a mood, a scale. Where it lives on you is decided together, in the room.

III

You refine it together

Gia draws from your story, then you sit down in person, on the day, and finish the design between you — fitted to your story and your body.

One client, one day

She takes a single client a day, by day rate. The whole day — and her whole focus — belongs to you and the piece you're making together.

On skin

The same hand, on skin

And here is where the paintings end up — her tattoos, photographed on the people who wear them.

Have a story that wants wearing?

Booking is by email only, from her private Philadelphia studio and on the road. One client a day — write with the story, and the drawing begins there.

Write to book

Step intothe garden.

The paintings, up close

How a piece is born

Bring a story

The cabinet answers with a seed

You refine it together

One client, one day

The same hand, on skin

Have a story that wants wearing?

Step into
the garden.