Hanbear Tattoos Oxfordshire

Tattoo artist in Bicester

Autumnal beanbag

Posted on September 14, 2026 by HannahCalavera

Hey everyone!

Autumn is here and I just completed my last guest spot for the year in Bristol!

I will be working mainly in Bicester now till March (maybe with a day or two in Keynsham if everything goes well!)

I now have a bunch of tattoo photos from recent I will share!

Cheryl had a devil that was not successfully covered once before, she asked for super bright and bold roses to cover it-but we only needed one to cover! (you can always add more!)

as you can see it covered great! Cheryl wanted Bright and BOLD and I can always happily oblige that request!

cover ups are one of my favourite things to do!

This Dolly Parton chicken tattoo was for Molly who requested it before the untimely death of our sweet country queen

we managed to finish off Joe’s arm with this beautiful coastal scene and some swallows for his sweet little family!

I was really happy with this one, I’d love to do more scenery/landscape tattoos

So this one was a huge, difficult harry potter tattoo cover up for Callie who LOVES cryptids and mysterious shit as much as I do! What a dream to do the mothman all dressed up and having a BALL! Thankyou for this request Callie I absolutely loved every second of this!

I got to make this sweet little scorpion for one of my favourite people to tattoo! I love a bit of black and grey!

A couple of kingfishers this year!

a sneak peek of this cormorant leg we’ve been working on for charlie!

Hope you’ve enjoyed this little selection! I will eventually get round to putting them on Instagram but Meta is evil so I am trying for my own sanity to spend as little time on it as possible (think Frodo with the ring)

thankyou for looking! xx

Oxfordshire and Bristol

Posted on May 21, 2026 by HannahCalavera

Hey everyone!

So I have finally got my directions in order and am trying to buy a narrowboat! But work has never been quite so dead!

I am making a lot of lino prints at the moment

which can be found on my

ETSY SHOP!!!

if you have unfinished work by me and are invested in me continuing the art of tattooing I could really do with any support you have to give

likes, comments and shares on my social media, recommendations if you are happy with my work I’d really appreciate the word of mouth especially as eeeeveryone wants a coverup or two! And perhaps if you are feeling flush in these trying times buying a print or booking in would help me out hugely at the moment.

So I am trying to knuckle down and improve my web presence and skills, do more lino and generally get my shit back in order!

One more thing for the SEO stuff

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Freedom is just around the corner

Posted on April 9, 2025 by HannahCalavera

Hey everyone, another fairly pointless update to try and push my website up the google rankings lol! Not much to report since the last one!

As the world slowly decides the systems we have built have lead to nothing but our own suffering it feels like we are in now in a kind of death rattle for capitalism and the illusion of democracy! It is, a funny old time.

Tattooing has certainly become more quiet in the last few months, and I’m not surprised- it is a luxury. The first things to take a downturn when the recession hits!

I’ve seen some tattooists online doing videos, saying why getting tattooed is important and even videos which imply that you should be spending money on tattoos over other things. I think this is kinda bollocks tbh. It is not a necessity and although we would all LOVE to be getting tattooed left right and centre -it’s just not a priority for most people who are struggling right now. Including myself.

A few years ago I decided to take a step back from tattooing full time to build some skills which i felt could be of benefit to humanity and nature, I am still trying to build that skill base, whilst at the same time continue to tattoo as much as I feasibly can.. Earning less money would have been a problem in Bristol but luckily i got a van and decided to live in that to avoid having to pay astronomical rent “for a year” whilst i did these other things. After 1 year I didn’t like the thought of going back- the rest is history!

Trying to live as cheaply as possible is actually pretty great but this has meant that getting tattooed, unless its for swaps right now is out of the window. Which is unfortunate as I have a lot ( a LOT) of unfinished work!

Because of this, I was thinking of doing pay what you can afford tattoo days a couple of days a month for people who need to get work finished but are in a similar situation. If you are maybe the one human who ever sees this blog and you need stuff finishing and you think it’s worth a shot email me!

hannahcalavera@hotmail.co.uk

Oh also as usual I split my time

at least once a month in Bristol, and once a month in Bicester, Oxfordshire.

Lots more travel dates and places on my travel page though!

Tattoos and nature

Posted on March 5, 2025 by HannahCalavera

Hello

long time no blog!

I spent January with a friend doing art at an artist retreat at glorious Mud and Wool in Wales, and since then have been marooned in Bicester whilst Dick Van-Dyke awaits a needed (but very spenny) repair! Luckily the lovely ladies at Allyours tattoo have welcomed me with open arms into their lovely tattoo studio to get back to the craft! It’s been really lovely to chill and not travel for a little bit though!

I have added more dates, locations and tattoo studios to my travel page and all are available to book in at now. Thankyou to all my clients who have been super patient with me over the last few years since I have been pursuing my bushcraft dream but I shall definitely be knuckling down and making it a priority to finish off everybody’s tattoos!

I have also decided to spend some time making some tattoo flash of my special interests in the esoteric, nature, welsh folklore, aliens and psychedelica!

I’m just going to type out some of the places I will be guesting for SEO purposes lol

Daventry, Leicester, Bicester, Oxford, Wales, Ceredigion, Aberystwyth, Wiltshire,

Purple Rose Bristol

Posted on July 31, 2017 by HannahCalavera

Hey everyone!

I’ve added some more “wannados” to the art section,

Here are the tattoos I’d like to make!

Also here is a work in progress from last week I tattooed on my friend Leigh!

It’s a concept piece based on her personality and life experience. I’m hoping to tailor more of my tattoo designs in this way.

Also I got to tattoo Emily’s old Cat pal Lelu on her last week! Old kitties are so cute.

Thanks for looking!

Cardiff

Posted on July 25, 2017 by HannahCalavera

Hello! What a hectic few weeks but very very fruitful! So after leaving Southmead Tattoo Studio I had a few guest spots and a bit of travel, the penultimate destination was Cardiff! I guested with my good friend Patryk Mazur at his own little amazing studio Surrealistic Sanctuary on City Road.

My biggest thanks to Patryk, I really had the best time and as usual he went above and beyond to help me out. deffo go give his Instagram a follow.

I made some more progress on Dave’s Slow Sleeve tattoo

Sloth is healed and the tortoise is only half done but I am really looking forward to getting more on this done 😀

Also Dave shared with me a photo of his cat Jacob with his tattoo!

I also did a bit more on Mark’s Dia de los muertos gal

It has got a tonne more to go though!

The Cardiff Tattoo convention was also amazing this year. I tattooed Dan’s other Chi Leela on his thigh. He sat for 6 hours with a broken leg (no painkillers) to get this done. He is a hard bastard!

Also amazingly I won an award for best of day!

Me Ruthey, Dan, Dan and Brodie went out afterwards to celebrate like the old farts we are and had a really fancy dinner!

Cardiff was great! I had the best time and hope to be back next year! Such a nice friendly convention!

Hannah

Singapore

Posted on June 20, 2017 by HannahCalavera

So I ran away from Bristol for a month. Singapore is an amazing city, but I also went to Hoi An in Vietnam which was one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever seen….

Here are some holiday photos

Whilst I was there I guested at Bada Bink Tattoo Firm! I had a great time tattooing outside of Europe for the first time!

I got to make this little bee on lavender gap filler on the wonderful Reggie, who gave me a book and lots of cool facts about life in SG

I also got to make this lilac breasted roller on Gee, who was absolutely lovely! Sat like a champ even though it was a painful one! I did

I got to make this tiiiiny Audrey II gap filler on the brilliant Fletcher Taco-Sandwich, who it turns out has EXACTLY the same music taste as me ( For those of you who know my taste, that is a feat.)

Here is a photo of me with all the guys, you can find their work on the Bada-Bink website!

They made me feel so welcome and I had a lovely time. I wish I’d had longer!

I’m back in Bristol now, and although I have plenty of guest spots planned I’m really happy to be home.

Bristol Tattoo

Posted on October 15, 2016 by HannahCalavera

So last week I got to do a guest spot at Legacy Ink in Haverhill. It’s home to some of the best Tattoo artists in the UK and therefore pretty intimidating to a worry-pig like me. I needn’t have worried though, everyone there was super hard working, humble and generally lovely. They made me feel really at home and took me on some GHOST HUNTS (those of you who know me know how much I love shitting myself up with ghost stories!)

I got to make some lovely tattoos whilst I was up in Suffolk, and got booked up really fast! So it means I will be going back in the new year!

I made this cockatoo tattoo on the talented apprentice/jr artist Jess Ashby, she wanted a tattoo to remind her to have fun and not get so stressed out about tattooing!

And I got to make this palindromic TacocaT tattoo for Ed

He loves the weird ones! And so do I

I’d love to tattoo more animal/food style tattoos!

I did a few more bud sadly did not get a decent photo of ANYTHING because I am a monster.

Anyway, I enjoyed my guest spot immensely but it is good to be home in Bristol again. I have tonsillitis at the moment (hense the crazy blog updatathon) but can’t wait to be tattooing full pelt again.

Tattoos this month

Posted on May 9, 2016 by HannahCalavera

Hey everyone! Another update just to showcase some of the recent tattoos Ive been working on.

I got to do this cheeky Totoro cover up on the lovely Becky!

I looove studio Ghibli so this was a real treat!

I also started two pet tattoos on Dave which I will have finished photos of next month! However here is a peek of his pirate cat Jacob!

And I got a healed photo of Dave’s calf tattoos I did a few months ago

I finished Austin’s Dandy lion tattoo also!

Here is a cute little Koala on James! Love the tropical theme at the mo, I really enjoyed this tattoo!

I managed to get another session on Elliot’s greek mythology sleeve as well. Here are Zeus and Pegasus

Hopefully more photos in a week or so as I’ll be updating more often in preparation for the move to Bristol. I will be doing a guest spot with some very talented tattoo artists in June and perhaps going to work at their studio come August!

thanks everyone

Hannah

Summer

Posted on July 8, 2015 by HannahCalavera

Hey everyone, long time no update- I’ve been a wee bit busy with all the travelling from Oxford! First update is that I now have a Travel section on my site for guest spots and convention news. Second is that I have settled into the new routine and am having fun in Newbury at Black rabbit once again! As well as starting at Arkham in Kidlington, which is a lovely, chilled out little studio.

So since the last update I went on a portrait painting course in Cornwall. Here are some of the paintings I’ve done, the rest can be found in my gallery.

Then a week later I travelled to Kerala for a well deserved break. I had an amazing time, by far one of the best places I’ve ever been. I came back uber relaxed after all the stress and incredibly inspired.

So, even with the post holiday blues I got stuck straight back into work feeling better than ever! I finished off Jessie’s peacock finally.

And did this cute little fella, covering up some old kanji. I’m loving pissed off looking owls at the moment!

I made this WW2 bear for Alan, complete with trench knife

and also made this goat on Norm

I just bought a new camera too so hopefully I will be putting out much better photos of my work. After chatting to Jess I realised I need to put as much effort into taking photos as I do creating the tattoos otherwise the photographs won’t do them justice.

Thanks for looking guys