Native Southern Californian, Donna Bates experience as a commercial illustrator and 3D Artist for over 20 years has evolved into a career in painting. She is a self-taught artist that is known for her own mash-up style of urban, tough-chic edgy strong independent women or “Badass Chicks”. Her women aren’t pin-ups nor portraits, they are a different vision of power and sex flavored with leather, metal, graffiti and fantasy!