Tattoos

Derek Dufresne is a completely self taught artist. Started experimenting as a teenager with homemade and eventually a professional tattoo machine. Putting the machines down to pursue a career in music. Derek has been tattooing professionally since 1999. He is known worldwide for his large scale, Japanese influenced tattoos, pin ups, and realism (portraits) He travels North America extensively tattooing at numerous tattoo conventions and guest spots.

He has been featured and interviewed in countless tattoo magazines from around the world, such as Skin & Ink, International Tattoo Art, Skin Art , Tattoo Savage, Frantik (all USA), Tattoo Arte-Mexico, Tatuajes- Mexico, Tattoo Spirit- Germany, Tattoo Art Magazine-Turkey, Tatz- Australia. And list goes on and on. He consistently has work published in tattoo magazines every month. He has appeared on tv and newspapers both local and international. And has won numerous awards for his tattoos and artwork in Canada and the USA. Also proficient in watercolor paints, pencilcrayon, and markers. He is a husband and father of 3 children

Dufresne moved west from Winnipeg, Manitoba and opened Fleshworks Tattoo Studio in 1999. It started as a small one man shop in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. It is now one of the most highly publicized studios in Canada. Derek and his wife Beth moved the studio to Victoria on Vancouver Island in 2003. Tattoo collectors travel from across Canada, the USA and abroad to get tattooed by him. Dufresne has tattooed celebrities and musicians such as Skid Row, The Enigma