GAUNTLET TATTOO
Ines Silva
Co-owner of Gauntlet Tattoo, Inez is a Portuguese tattoo artist who moved to Canada in 2016. Taking influence from European classic art, architecture and literature, her preferred styles to tattoo are neotraditional and neo romantic, with some focus in ornamental art as well. Her favourite themes to draw are faces, ornamental designs, botanical art, animals and medieval weapons in both colour and black & grey.
Genevieve Bethley
Co-owner of Gauntlet Tattoo and tattooing since 2012. Genevieve loves working with bright colours, specializing in illustrative realism and neotraditional. She is often approached to recreate characters from beloved video games, comics and movies. Some of her favourite images to create are organic, nature, fantasy and sci-fi themed.
Dani Stammschroer
Dani started tattooing in 2019 while finishing up her Honours Bachelor of Illustration degree at Sheridan College. Specializing in illustrative dotwork/stippling, she loves tattooing botanicals, ornamental designs, animals (especially in clothing) and anything inspired by nature. Dani has been working out of Gauntlet Tattoo since August of 2021.
Jude Wilfort
Ayrton Lyddiatt
Mike Bujtas
Mike started his tattoo journey at the young age of 16. He spent a couple years in a small town shop where his career truly started before relocating to Kitchener to continue practicing his art. He grew a lot in that shop over the years alongside talented artists and furthered his expertise in black and grey realism. He joined the Gauntlet team upon their relocation in 2026.