KHWEZIErin Ashleigh (Khwezi) is a Washington-based tattoo artist. Color, form, and composition are the focus of her end result with each design. The art of tattoos often allows for the interaction between pain, beauty, emotion, and healing within one moment. This moment is captured in a picture and placed on the body and commemorated permanently. Her training consists of four years of formal art school at Portland State University and a formal tattoo apprenticeship before beginning her career. Erin Ashleigh is focusing on the realm of realism with her work. When she is not at the shop tattooing, Erin Ashleigh is in the studio painting. She works in all mediums of paint and also resin, creating works that foster reactions or promote the realism that mirrors the work she is doing within the tattoo world.