Atlanta-based Artist

Adam Wellborn, AKA Peach Skull, currently lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia. Tattoos by APPOINTMENT ONLY  at Gallery Chimera, 624 North Highland Avenue NE, Atlanta, Georgia. You can contact me here or through the gallery/tattoo shop contact form.

About the Artist's History

The daily use of Methylphenidate starting at age nine and lasting until about fifteen caused a strange period of silence and solitude for this artist. After nearly six years of constant drawing, as a refuge from the world, my 15-year-old self emerged from the drafting table with around 10,000 hours of drawing experience. Logos, comics, landscapes, human forms, and countless characters were created in my childhood home. Drawing saved my life back then.

After discontinuing daily use of the drug, my silence broke, and I fell into the world of sex, drugs and whatever loud music was playing in the nineties. Eventually I made it to art school and actually graduated within the four-year term, holding a Bachelor's in Fine Arts.

Like most, my college career wasn't a straight path. I absolutely found a home at The Atlanta College of Art in my early twenties. I studied under great professors and alongside some amazing artists. They put a diploma in my hand in 2004. Shortly after graduating, although trained as an illustrator, I began a career in marketing - and I knew zilch about marketing.

As the use of the internet grew, I was funneled into SEO and later into content marketing. Clicking away on a keyboard by day, and painting by night, I managed to pin down a series of art shows in Atlanta for a few years.

Work was a drag, so I co-founded a web marketing company and then sold it a few years later. After that, animated videos got hot in commercial use and I found them fun to create. I finally earned some real money doing these. 

The last thing I did online was create and manage a very successful e-commerce site. Additionally, I contracted content marketing campaigns for other brands.

Ultimately, the time arrived when I had to make some decisions about what I was going to do when I grew up. I decided to sharpen my pencils and return to my real passion - drawing and painting. I'm showing again at Kai-Lin Art. I'll also be keeping the blog up to date about new adventures. Oddly enough, a blend of my personal and professional life finally landed me in a tattoo shop.

As strange as it may seem to some, I started inking skin in 2024. I actually met my tattoo mentors while showing at Kai-Lin Art. They just happened to come by the gallery on the opening night of a group show. I had already decided my goal to become a tattoo artist and was actively reviewing local shops in search of a mentor. Once I met Caleb and Alisha, I began apprenticing right away. It's 2026 now, and I've done about 100 tattoos. I really enjoy putting my artwork on people. I had yet another humble begining and now I'm really getting going with my signature etching style of tattoos.