Hayden Welch is a Rochester native and multidisciplinary artist. While her creative interests remain broad, she started focusing on tattooing in 2012, seeking a link between body liberation and her love of illustration.  

When it comes to tattoo, she is almost entirely self taught.  Early years in tattoo shops showed her that she would need to carve out her own safe place to hone - and eventually teach - her craft.  Her vision for Hinterland has always been multifaceted: a mindful and inclusive tattoo studio, an art house, a gallery, a workshop, an event space.  A sort of creative chameleon studio that takes the mystery out of the process, and prioritizes accessibility, play, and skill-sharing. 

Hayden’s art and tattoo work is often centered around her fascination with the natural world, death and rebirth, memory and record-keeping.  She explores these themes through illustrative botanicals, kaleidoscopic symmetry, dot work, fine line precision, Renaissance-inspired forms, and whimsical folk art.  She lives in downtown Rochester with a bearded poet-professor and their cats, Figgs & Sunday.