Briana Annick Sargent has “witchcraft” in her blood. She is a descendant of the Salem Massachusetts Witches who were feared for their skill in the black arts. Akin to her foremothers, she wears her craft and her heart on her sleeves. Born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1982, Briana came to earth embracing her Leo tendencies. From early on, her passion was for filling sketchbooks, making forts in the woods, and loving animals, plants, and bicycles. In all honesty, not much has changed. After completing her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Illustration at Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), Briana began her tattoo apprenticeship at Flat’s Tattooing in Groton, Connecticut. With little means to begin her endeavor, a group of her close friends pooled together to help buy her equipment. In return, the promise of free tattoos for life. She took her love of illustration and friendship, and made it her life’s work. “I see it as a personal form of art that will be loved by someone forever”, she explains. Self admittedly, she “reads more maps than books”, with her love of travel and adventure broadening her perspective. To date, Briana has lived and worked as a Tattoo Artist in Savannah, Groton, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Honolulu, and San Diego. Currently she resides in Southern California, and owns BUJU Tattoo in Mission Hills. Her distinct, custom artwork focuses on the color, beauty, and individuality in each piece. Her style, while hard to define, can be summed up as “colorful-swirly-girly-mucha-intricate-clean-bright-flowery-graffitti-street-sweet-bold-fun-love”. And it works. Briana also makes custom, mixed-media paintings that range from people to animals, and everything in between. She captures the spirit of her subjects in brilliant colors and textures on canvases of “found-wood”. Briana has been known to produce a flurry of paintings in a relatively short amount of time. To this she explains that her work is “inspired by love and comes easily when it is means so much someone”. Briana’s work can be seen in her booth at BUJU Tattoo, in local galleries, and on the skin canvases of hundreds of people all over the world. For more info, visit bujutattoo.com, artkillsartists.com or friend her on Facebook.

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