From pen to tattoo — Katie’s Celtic knotwork frame (Work in progress). In historical artefacts, knotwork was often used by ancient artists to frame symbolic elements; and it of course had its own symbolism tied into it. Katie’s harp (not tattooed by me) now has its own Celtic (Hibernian-Saxon Insular) embellishments. My aim was to bring attention to the existing tattoo, not take away from it. I’ll never be able to ask the ancient manuscript artists of Northern Europe what their methods were, but