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Rochelle (Ro) Fainstein is a self-taught, intuitive artist who has lived and created in CT, NYC, TX, and NC. She travels often for inspiration.
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Ro picked painting back up as an adult as a form of therapy to work through trauma. Today, her works span different media and include the celebration of quirky, extreme and joyful memories, as well as moments that are more trying.
 

Ro loves the sensorial aspect of artworks and encourages owners to run their hands across her more textural works, at least once, as they represent the ripples and scars of time and memory.

She has exhibited and sold works in NYC, Austin, Pittsburgh, and throughout NC.

Banditka, for which her site and online presence is named, is a nickname her parents gave Ro growing up – a variation of bandit -- for her playful and lawless spirit that comes through in her works and personality.