Tommy Wheeler

My most recent tattoo was of my tiny lykoi cat Harry Wormwood. He is one of 7 in my cat pack. I have other cat tattoos, I love cats. I also got a tiny star in my favorite turquoise power color. I use this color as a pop throughout my tattoos of oceanic elements and texture.

If my ink could speak it would say that it’s created as if I stepped out of lost city Atlantis (my inner kids dream) and it’s deeply connected to family, in specific my father who passed. He was a hipster dad with tattoos in the early 90’s into 2000’s and on some energetic level, he inspired me to become a tattoo artist today.

I would continue to grow as an artist and put this money back into opening more space for queer art and tattooers to exist on Long Island where tattoo culture, it is predominantly gate-kept by the heterosexual community. My private studio here in Soundbeach Long Island NY has been open since June 2020. We are 5 in June! With my partner Adam, together 14 years, we have been creating in the tattoo world now for about 7 years and what we create at Fine Line Willy is distinct.