Sunny Buick

Sunny Buick (née Gypsy Sunshine Buik, born August 4, 1970) is a Canadian-born tattoo artist and painter who participated in the Lowbrow Pop Surrealism movement of California, USA from 1996 to 2003.

[3] Sunny Buick was born at home in Nakusp, British Columbia, Canada on August 4, 1970; in a cabin in the woods with no running water, no electricity.

[4][better source needed] Buick earned her BFA from San Francisco State University in 1992 and studied with Renny Pritikin.

[5] In 2019, Buick premiered her film Eyecandy Bulimia at the Wild Weekend Music Festival in Majorca, Spain.

[6] Buick is influenced by historical tattoo flash, pinup art, pulp fiction magazine cover art, Chinese firecracker packaging, Mexican calendar art, surrealism, (Leonora Carrington, Rémedios Varo, Leonor Fini), WPA painters (Thomas Hart Benton), circus and sideshow posters.Sunny Buick is inspired by literature especially by Angela Carter and Paul Auster, popular culture (the Tiki revival movement), music, cinema, Japanese toys, and tin toys.