Brummie Punk Artist Exhibits at The Torch in April

MUSIC, WIFE, LIFE …

Lee ‘Trashcan’ Minton

Forever Art Tattoo Studio (inc. Trashcan Emporium)

101 Main Street, Pembroke SA71 4DB

www.thetrashcanemporium.wordpress.com

trashcan.emporium66@gmail.com

Music, Wife, Life…

Lee ‘Trashcan’ Minton is a Pembrokeshire based artist and tattoo artist who works with a variety of mediums.   Lee was born in Birmingham in 1966 and his natural artistic ability was evident from a very young age.  Lee enjoyed his art and explored his creativity whilst working in a variety of traditional settings.  Around 1995 some of his designs were noticed by an artist at a local tattoo studio, and he wanted to meet the man behind the intricate and colourful designs that his customers were bringing in. Soon, Lee began to experiment with transferring his art to skin and the rest, as they say, is history.

Lee had always felt drawn to the beauty and soulfulness of Pembrokeshire and in 2001 left the big city to set up his ForeverArt studio, originally located near the castle but now situated at the top of Main Street, Pembroke. With over 21 years of experience, Lee has built up an excellent reputation as a tattoo artist, and clients travel from across the UK to seek out his talent in ink.  Whilst he has a keen interest in the old school tattoo designs, he is alsoa highly skilled and very competent tattoo artist in all genres of ink on skin work.  Lee really is a master of manymediums but describes skin as being one of the hardest art forms and revels in the priceless joy of the mobility of his art, where the beauty of the piece can be appreciated anywhere, by anyone, at any time.

Lee is an old punk rocker and since a very young age was drawn to the ethos, values and music of the Birmingham punk scene. Music has always been a source of creative inspiration, hence much of his work is in a photo-realism style, featuring music icons of punk and rock.

Lee married his true love Kazzy at Manorbier Castle in 2016, and she too has become a regular and inspirational feature for his work. Lee and Kazzy live a creative, peaceful, happy life together in their little pink bungalow in Freshwater East.