All images contain elements of painting, collage, and print. Parts of images are created with a computer, digital camera, scanner, and ink-jet printer with archival pigment-based ink. A great, new product called Ink-Aid allows me to print with an ink-jet printer on multiple layers of paint, on metal, on almost any surface I can pass through the printer! This process has drastically altered my ideas about photography and has enabled me to combine photography, painting and printmaking in ways I used only to dream about!

Images are printed on 100% rag printmaking paper, specially prepared to accept and enhance the ink. I often pass the same print through an ink-jet printer several times - creating a richer color overlay and texture similar to a traditional lithographic print. Paintings and collages are created on a base of wood panel or paper. Mixed media such as colored pencils, pastels, paint, gold leaf and even ceramic mosaic! are incorporated into the images.

A review of my "place poem" prints in the "Works on Paper" Exhibit at the Marion Arts Center, Marion, MA by David Boyce/New Bedford Standard Times:

"... Ms. Bradley's dozen monoprints employ a technique which layers photographic images of natural landscapes, flora, and fauna, built upon the outline forms of Gothic window arches and similar architectonic frameworks. In paeans to the Victorian sensibility of urging a spiritual return to nature, she employs modern technology in this body of work to both illuminate and belie her delight in its flexibility.
But she hasn't fully eschewed the artist's hand here, enhancing her images further with applied paint, colored pencil, inks, and gold leaf. In addition, she has included in the lower margin of several of these works the poetry of the little-known Victorian writer Eliza Keary. The results bear an affinity to illustration, but with an intriguing perspective depth."

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