About Sophie Elizabeth
I'm a seasonal artist and creative spiritual ritual & cycles guide (honestly, trying to put a 'name' on what I do is difficult so we'll roll with that!).
Creativity has been a part of my life since I remember, I couldn't ever remember a time where I didn't want to be an artist when I grew up. I went to college, studied art and specialised in fashion and textiles. I LOVED working with fabric but mostly fell in love with the combination of illustrations and embroidery. As I progressed through college I quickly realised that further education in the 'traditional' sense wasn't for me. Although I applied and got accepted to study illustration at university, I decided that wasn't the root I wanted to go down. Instead, I got a huge pull towards the tattoo industry...
I started my apprenticeship more or less straight after college after spending a month or two perfecting my portfolio and picked it up so quickly. It felt natural and what I always wanted to do. However I learnt that the tattoo industry is taxing, and I didn't have as much time or energy to commit to embroidery as well as tattooing, so I stopped embroidery for a while.
A few years later in my early twenties, I fell pregnant with my first baby! A pivotal moment for sure, which led to me wanting to navigate my own working life and so I opened up a studio 6 months after having a baby (not for the faint hearted!), but I couldn't of been happier.
This is where the shifts happened, although I was working as a tattooist and living a creative life, I felt a growing pull toward healing, ritual and a more intentional way of being. Almost like having a baby opened up a spiritual portal within me. Through meditation, journaling and just listening inwards, I began receiving intuitive nudges that there was more to my life than just 'mum' and a 'tattooist.
Ritual then became my anchor and opened my eyes to a new way of thinking and being. Lighting candles, working with the moon, journaling with intention, spending time in nature, and creating sacred space in my everyday life helped me reconnect with myself both personally and creatively. Over time, this way of living naturally began to weave itself into my tattoo work. Whether it was through my actual art work, being inspired by natures cycles and spiritual symbolism or actually incorporating rituals into my tattoo sessions.
What started off as intention before appointments grew into deeply meaningful, energetic, soul-led sessions, a wonderful collaboration with me and my client! Tattoos became more than just a pretty tattoo but portals for healing, manifestation and personal transformation. I loved this evolution and is something I am grateful for creating with each client.
In between this tattooing transformation, Lunaia was born! It began as a way to share the ritual tools that had changed my life and grew into an amazing community for women seeking connection, seasonal living and self-transformation. To me, personal wellbeing is inseparable from our relationship with nature, creativity and our own inner wisdom. When we honour the moon’s cycles, the seasons, and our emotional rhythms, everything just flows. Motherhood deepened this understanding even further for me especially after the birth of my second baby.
Becoming a mama to two beautiful souls taught me how precious presence is. It reminded me daily of the importance of slowing down, listening, and creating a life rooted in love, intention, and authenticity. As of 2025, I realised that what we grew with our tattoo studio had slowly took away that slow pace of life and replaced it pressures that I just did not want in my life, so we decided to close our studio after 7 wonderful years! I became a travelling artist, and I now can truly embrace my creativity with purpose and intent. I am now able to explore new ways of creativity, and managed to pick up the other kind of needle again, embroidery!
Today, I share what I’ve learned and what I’m still learning through my membership, my tattoo work, courses, circles, retreats and creative offerings. I believe that magick lives in the everyday: in morning rituals, in moonlit journaling, in incense smoke, the food we eat, conversations, connection and in choosing yourself again and again for the benefit of your own creative spark but also those you love around you.