I am a contemporary painter. I paint with bold uses of color and thick applications of paint, built up from washes to brushstrokes, dabs and smears of paint. I love how one brushstroke can define so much and also tell a single story. The way I work and layer paint, I am interested in how layers of images and baggage from contemporary culture are piled on women from how we are supposed to look and act, to the things we are supposed to achieve, to how we define our lives and wh