
Calgary · AB
Kris Chisholm
Kris Chisholm is named as a tattoo artist in the navigation and on his current profile. It links @kris.c.tattoos and explicitly attributes an illustrative style to him.
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Calgary · AB
Kris Chisholm is named as a tattoo artist in the navigation and on his current profile. It links @kris.c.tattoos and explicitly attributes an illustrative style to him.
St. John's · NL
Kris Thornhill has tattooed since 2022 and graduated from Memorial University's visual-arts program. She develops illustrative work informed by woodcut and sketch aesthetics, often bold and textured, across medieval scenes, animals, plants, and offbeat ideas.

Toronto · ON
Krys is listed among the artists presented by Yonge Street Tattoos in Toronto. The profile mentions or presents work in blackwork and illustrative. Work samples are linked from the artist's official page.

Edmonton · AB
Ky Dahl began tattooing at Black Market in November 2022. Her official profile describes illustrative, traditional-adjacent compositions that combine eerie and cute subjects; her current profile places her at Westside.

Winnipeg · MB
LJ Hutchinson has more than seven years of experience and tattoos at Albert Street. The official portfolio emphasizes floral and mythological subjects through realism, illustrative work, and fine line in colour or black and grey.

Vancouver · BC
La Maison Tattoo Studio is an appointment-only tattoo studio on the third floor of 369 Carrall St in Vancouver's Gastown, trading under the legal name La Maison des Artistes and founded in 2022 by owner and artist Loz. Its current artists page names twelve tattoo artists: Loz, Dan, Alina, Dav, Margot, Kseniia, Rue, Valeriia, Danielle, Wren, Leah and Juli. Booking starts with an enquiry form on the studio site or by contacting an artist directly on Instagram, hourly rates are published as $180 to $250 with a $180 minimum, and the studio also runs a published guest-artist and residency programme. A relocation to 1 Alexander St is announced without a date. A social-and-videography team member is kept outside the tattoo roster.

Toronto · ON
La Manigance Toronto is a private tattoo studio in suite 300 at 116 Spadina Avenue, Toronto. Its official website states the studio opened in 2021, publishes Tuesday-to-Saturday 10:00-18:00 hours, and describes a booking path built on a free consultation and a non-refundable deposit. The studio publishes fourteen individual tattoo-artist profiles, including owner Ossian Staraj, and states its artists take cover-up and rework projects. The shop manager and the studio videographer are kept outside the tattoo roster. No piercing, laser removal, or permanent-makeup service is advertised.

Toronto · ON
La Marka Studios is a tattoo studio at 162A Spadina Avenue in downtown Toronto. Its current official site publishes a three-artist team, phone number, daily hours, and an active booking link; the latest municipal BodySafe record reports a passing result.

Squamish · BC
Lauren Bryce Tattoo & Design is a tattoo studio in Squamish, British Columbia. Its official site mentions or presents work in illustrative and realism. A public booking link is available in the verified contact details.

Parksville · BC
The official site presents Lauren Carr as a current tattoo artist; her portfolio names dotwork, florals, illustrative and neo-traditional work.

Montréal · QC
Le Malandrin is a tattoo studio in Montréal's Plateau-Mont-Royal at 282 Rue Rachel E, opened in 2021 by tattoo artist Marco Leblanc. Its current website publishes a visible address, phone and email addresses, free consultations, and walk-in tattooing Tuesday to Saturday from noon to 6 p.m. for small and medium pieces. Seven people have an individual booking link: Marco, Joana, Dom, Simonne, Bobby, Jessica and Sabrina, the last of whom is shop manager and apprentice. The studio also runs a separately booked laser tattoo-removal service, whose technician Felix is kept outside the tattoo roster.

Drummondville · QC
Le New Bold is a current tattoo and piercing studio in Drummondville. Its official website presents nine current tattoo artists; Jimmy, explicitly a piercer, is excluded.

Vancouver · BC
Leah is named as a tattoo artist on La Maison Tattoo Studio's current roster. Her profile page says she is an Irish artist from Wicklow now based in Vancouver, that she began tattooing in 2020 with hand-poked work before adding machine work, and that her favourite styles are ornamental, colour, traditional, bold and fine line, with a feminine aesthetic and witchy and floral influences.

Calgary · AB
Leah is named on the Jade and Dagger homepage roster and has her own first-party profile page, which describes her as a Filipina-Canadian Calgary tattoo artist who leads the studio team. That page attributes neo-traditional and illustrative work with anime and fantasy influence, bold linework and ornamental detail to her, and links her professional profile @royelle_tattoo. The studio FAQ says she posts her available flash designs to an Instagram highlight.

Maple Ridge · BC
Leah Bernier Tattoos is a tattoo studio in Maple Ridge, British Columbia. Its official site mentions or presents work in black and grey, cover-ups, fine line and illustrative.

Red Deer · AB
The current official profile identifies Lee Brooker as a tattoo artist and explicitly attributes illustrative, neo-traditional, American traditional and Japanese traditional work to him, with muted colour palettes.

Calgary · AB
Legacy Tattoo is a tattoo studio in Calgary, Alberta. Its official site mentions or presents work in anime and manga, black and grey, blackwork and dotwork. A public booking link is available in the verified contact details.

Oakville · ON
Len Montes is an OCAD University graduate who has apprenticed with Cory Ferguson since 2023. Their profile says they are learning across tattoo styles and want to develop further in illustrative, Japanese, and ornamental work. Len is not currently accepting clients.

Saskatoon · SK
Level Up Tattoo Studio is a tattoo studio in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Its official site mentions or presents work in blackwork, cover-ups, floral and botanical and geometric.

Toronto · ON
Lewis Family Tattoo Company is an appointment-only tattoo studio on the second floor at 2235A Dundas Street West in Toronto's west end, a short walk south of Dundas West station. Its current website says the studio opened in 2010 and is owned and operated by veteran tattooer Derek Lewis with his wife Christine, that the studio works fully disposable with single-use needles and tubes or cartridges, that pigment options exist for vegan and allergy-conscious clients, and that its City of Toronto Public Health BodySafe pass and licence are displayed at the stairs. The studio is also the home of its own Better Butter Care tattoo glide and aftercare product and sells merchandise through an online store. Booking runs through the site's contact form or by messaging an artist directly on Instagram; the current form offers Derek, Chris, Shaifa, Alan, Ali, Jen, Adam and Lindsay, with Lindsay away until June 2027.

Chestermere · AB
Lexi Rae - Tattooing & Fine Art is a tattoo studio in Chestermere, Alberta. Its official site mentions or presents work in black and grey, illustrative and realism.

Toronto · ON
Lia creates fine-line tattoos designed around movement and anatomy. Their stated inspirations include unusual orchids, botanicals, and nostalgia, using organic linework and soft shading developed collaboratively with clients.

Calgary · AB
Lida is a tattoo artist and the owner of Sorry Mom Tattoo Shoppe. Her official profile names realism, watercolour, illustrative, and fine-line tattooing; the studio introduction also notes a background in visual communication and a practice centred on custom designs developed from each client’s story and preferences.

Vancouver · BC
Ling Lui is listed among the artists presented by Adrenaline Studios - Granville in Vancouver. The profile mentions or presents work in black and grey, colour, illustrative and micro-realism. Work samples are linked from the artist's official page.
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