All
images contain elements of painting, collage, ceramics and print. Parts
of images are created with a computer, digital camera, scanner, and
ink-jet printer with archival pigment-based ink.
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.
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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."
loribradley@comcast.net
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