Darlene DiBona Chesko
I’m a Boston based artist, working as a professional tattoo artist since 1999. I started tattooing in San Francisco and worked on the island of Maui for a while before returning home to Boston in 2005.
In 2009 I completed my initial cosmetic tattoo education at the John Hashey School for Cosmetic Tattooing in Oldster, Florida and have returned from time to time for continuing education.
I am not an aesthetician. I am a tattoo artist.
I wanted to expand my relationship with my vocation by learning about areola reconstruction and mastectomy tattooing. I was drawn by the service of it and the desire to use my skills to fill a void; to give something of myself beyond my usual relationship with the art of tattooing.
It has been my privilege to practice this kind of tattooing for the last twelve years. It provides me with a sense of purpose in my work that I’ve grown to need. My years of experience as an artist in the tattoo field qualify me to recreate something through the tattoo medium that nature put there first.