Studio Update
Katia has been tattooing since 2006. After her apprenticeship finished, she took a business course and opened a tattoo studio called Rainfire Tattoo in 2012. For many years the studio was a busy, yet calm and beautiful place to get a tattoo in the heart of East Vancouver, as well as a home to resident artists and guest artists from all over the world. At the end of 2022, Katia decided to close the business and is currently working out of a different studio in East Vancouver, BC, Canada.
To contact Katia with any questions, feel free to send her an email to tattoosbykatia@gmail.com
Tattoo Lineage
Katia's lineage can be traced back over a century ago to legendary tattooists, Bert Grimm and his apprentice Don Deaton, founder and owner of Sea Tramp Tattoo, which is now the oldest existing tattoo shop in Portland, OR.
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Bert Grimm 1915 - Don Deaton 1972 - Amanda Myers 1990 - Peter Archer 1995 - Rowan Kimsey 2003 - Katia Somerville 2006
