Our artists
Masters of the craft.
Three artists work out of 9 House.
Thontan Rodphai · Tom
Founder · Resident artist
Tom
Thontan Rodphai · from Ubon Ratchathani · tattooing since 2008
Tom has been tattooing since 2008. Before that he painted temples part-time while studying — that is where he found both his eye for Thai drawing and the fact that he wanted to make art for a living.
He got tattooed, thought "I think I can do this", and the artist who did it — Wit — became his first mentor. They are still friends.
He opened 9 House in an old Lanna-style timber house on Loi Kroh, and did roughly forty percent of the rebuild with his own hands.
“This time I will try my very best.”
What Tom tattoos
- Realism
- Thai
- Cover-ups
- Oriental
- Chicano
- Dot work
- Geometric
The record
- Experience
- Tattooing since 2008
- Tom has worked as a tattoo artist for eighteen years, in Phuket and now Chiang Mai.
- Convention
- Hua Hin Tattoo Convention, 2016
- Spirit of Oriental Art — 1st runner-up, small job colour. The certificate is on the shelf in the studio.
- Convention
- XL Tattoo Thailand, 2017
- Second place. The category isn't recorded, so we don't claim one.
- Judging
- Artistic Ink, 2025 & 2026
- Tom has judged at the Artistic Ink convention two years running.
Resident artists
Golf and James.
Both work out of 9 House alongside Tom.
Golf
Resident artist
James
Resident artist
Also here
Guest artists. 9 House also hosts guests — ask us who is in.