I’ve been teaching myself to use pen and ink, like dip pens and ink. I’m getting to a point where I’m comfortable. I grew up looking at a lot of etchings, and it’s a little dream to be able to draw some of those etchings, so that’s what I’m doing, trying to teach myself. But there’ll come a point where I’m like, “I’ve got to leave this alone or I’m just going to screw it up.” And it looks done or quite often I’ll ask my wife what she thinks. I’ll be like, “What do you think?” And she’s like, “Don’t do anything else to it.” I’m like, “But I really want to do this.” And sometimes I’ll listen and sometimes I won’t.
Managed profile
Not claimed by Thomas Hooper
Thomas Hooper has not joined FLAPSS and has not endorsed it. This page is a reference record assembled from published interviews and public remarks. Every answer below is a direct quotation with the source and date shown next to it.
TH
Thomas Hooper
British-Australian film director
United Kingdom · b. 1972
Arts and letters
About
Artist Thomas Hooper on the relationship between doing tattoos and making visual art, knowing when something is finished, and the value of a creative community.
1 answer
Every quotation above is reproduced from the source shown beside it and has not been edited. Thomas Hooper did not write these answers for FLAPSS. Request a correction or removal.