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Miserden: Part One | A Strange and Unnatural Clearing

GLOOM AT THE EDGE OF THE VILLAGE It's hard to put into words the feeling of heading into Miserden. It should be no different to arriving in the countless other Cotswold villages I've found myself i...

CLOSED FOR SEPTEMBER 2023

Hey everyone. We'll be taking a break for September, ahead of some big things that we have coming up very soon. La Mort is soon going to be shifting up a gear, and it requires a lot of behind-the s...

Temporary Closure of our Store

Over the past few weeks we have all been watching news about the Covid-19 pandemic getting rapidly worse. There are now lockdowns in place around the globe, including many of the home countries of ...

Strange New Heavens: The Story Behind the Collection

“I am transported to wonderland. I walk in streets where gold is dirt, and I have no desire to gather it. I wonder whether it is worth while to explore the canals of Mars, or rock myself on the ri...

Unrequited Limited Edition Print Release: A Lovecraftian Horror

This week sees the release of the first in a series of limited edition art prints featuring the illustrations from our Revelations collection. We chose Unrequited as the first piece to print, and w...

The Psychedelic Macabre: What will our next collection look like?

I’m not one for getting things done early. With each new collection being released in late autumn, it’s not unusual to see me falling to pieces around September, after realising I am way off track....

Revelations: creating the collection that almost ruined me

Most of the time, I hate what I do. Not the end product, or even the rising excitement that comes before I start work on something new. Just the way it never goes as it should. Spending hours, day...

The Book of Black: Faye Dowling

September is always my favourite month. It's when we finish our main collection each year, it's when we pack up and head off to the London Tattoo Convention, and it's usually the time when we see e...

Stonerror: Old School Desert Rock Done Right

On one of my late night sessions in the studio, when I was looking to avoid doing any more work, I headed over to Bandcamp to waste some time. I was hoping to edit another La Mort Youtube video the...

Inking our Artwork: Artem Mortis Timelapse

At La Mort, we always seem to be as busy as ever, but every now and then, it seems, I have the time to try something new. I first experimented with timelapse videos several years ago, but for vari...

OPEN SKETCHBOOK: PART ONE

I recently started looking through some of my old sketch books to see how my work has been shaped over time. It's a strange feeling to see sketches from years ago and to remember exactly where I w...

Design Spotlight: Pestilence

Pestilence has to be one of my favourite designs that we have released so far. It came out as part of the London Pharaohs Collection last September and is, perhaps, the design that most typifies t...

TATTOO INFLUENCE: Death prints by Hans Holbein

It's always good to have a break from the drawing board. I can only handle a few hours before it starts messing with my head! So, now seems like a good time to start one of those projects I have be...

How we started a T-shirt brand by accident

Well, 2015 came and went and I was so busy that I barely even noticed. This was not what I had in mind for life as an adult. When I was 15, I left school confidently declaring that I was going to ...

London Pharaohs Collection Release

I am beyond excited to anounce the release of London Pharaohs; our first full collection. It has been eight months since we started preparing to create our new set of designs and it feels gre...