Apartment Therapy Feature

I love apartment therapy - so you can imagine my pleasure when I realised that I was featured in a layout themed around silver on Apartment Therapy San Franciso Edition today!! Yeay... I am one happy lady, thanks apartment therapy.... delighted to have been featured... click the link below to go and look....

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Flying Longboarder Surf Substance

Flying Longboarder Exhibition

I am very excited to announce that later today it will be the opening party of the Flying Longboarder Surf Substance Art show tonight in Comillas, Spain. Here is a link to the Flying Longboarder site..

All images by Jo Bradford
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I have sent 12 sea themed pictures to sunny Spain to represent Green Island Studios and the UK in this gathering of 8 surf artists from around the globe. Flying Longboarder is on scenic Oyambre Beach in Comillas (Cantabria, Spain) home to a fine selection of surfboards, surf fashion, & stunning surf photography books, and not forgetting the awesome art you'll find on the walls by yours truly :)

All images by Jo Bradford
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My work will be exhibited alongside some very interesting artists such as Califonia's crazy cartoonist and friend of the stars, Gomez Bueno, and the talented French painter DL, and of course Hector Barrero, whose gorgeous photo appears in the flyer at the top of this post.

All images by Jo Bradford
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Go Getty-er....

Follow My Footsteps by Jo Bradford

I received an invitation from Getty Images this morning to join them as an image contributor.

They have already pre-selected a range of my work, spanning the past decade of my career, that they would like to add to their collection. Some of it is just laying about the place doing nothing to earn it's keep, so I have decided to go ahead and let the folks at Getty look after them for me for now.

Both Starfish and Follow My Footsteps are among those I have decided to hand over to Getty to market for me.

Starfish by Jo Bradford

Lasso The Moon

I am very excited to announce the launch of my new range of framed artwork on the gorgeous British Design site Lasso The Moon.

I have worked with the team at Lasso The Moon for several months to come up with a unique range only available through them.

I proudly present the results of this hard work today.

Introducing the Jo Bradford collection at Lasso The Moon, a range of ready to hang, artwork, in three different sizes to suit every budget.
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Gorgeous giclee prints on textured fine art watercolour paper, signed and hand titled on the white border mounts, glazed with non-reflective UV absorbent glass and finished off with an exquisite hand crafted beech wood frame individually hand-finished with a luscious lime white wax coating.

The overall framed artwork sizes available at Lasso The Moon are:
9.5 x 9.5 inches for £45
12 x 12 inches for £65
15 x 15 inches for £95

View the new Jo Bradford collection on Lasso The Moon by clicking here:

Jo Bradford on Lasso The Moon

Lasso The Moon website front page: http://www.lassothemoon.co.uk/

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"Lasso the moon has gorgeous gifts and accessories made by hand-picked UK designers."
~ Country Homes and Interiors Magazine

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"We can't get enough of these gorgeous gifts from lasso the moon.

Whoever you're buying for, lasso the moon is sure to have the perfect thing to make someone's day." ~ Homes and Gardens Magazine

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Online gift shop lasso the moon is a cut above the average.

All of the items have been chosen from the cream of British and Irish designers, meaning that nothing is mass-produced. ~ BBC Homes and Antiques Magazine

On being Golden

Golden by Jo Bradford

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Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

by Robert Frost

Gaudi Dreams

Sunday Morning (9am) by Jo Bradford

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A long time ago, when I was starting out, a successful and well established artist I met at my first group exhibition, told me that one of the things that no-one told her when she started out is that you don't always (if ever) get to go with your work when it goes on show in wonderful places around the globe. At the time I thought she was simply lucky to have people in far flung places wanting to show her work. But years later, I can see how disappointing that reality actually is.

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I have 12 pieces of work ready to send to Spain this week, as my work will be in a show in Comillas, at the Flying Longboarder Gallery from the 20th August. I was really hoping to be there for the opening night myself, but sadly the time is near now and I just can't make it :(
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What a shame too, as this area of Northern Spain looks stunning... Comillas is lucky enough to boast a building by Gaudi to rub it in even more!!
And nearby San Vincente De La Barquera looks stunning too, look....
Oh well, never mind... if only my art could take photos of itself at the event (with a glass of bubbly and perhaps a canape) and send them back to me so I can be part of the fun by proxy..... {sigh}

birthday bonanza

Happy Birthday to me ...
I had such a great birthday last Friday, I am so honoured to have so many sweet and thoughful people in my life, who played their part in making it such a special week :)

I was spoilt rotten all week, {thanks Hubby, for breakfast in bed with glorious happy birthday tunes by The Beatles and Stevie Wonder, wonderfully thoughtful gifts, bubble baths strewn with flower petals and fancy restaurants, amongst other things xx}.

We had several celebratory meals and gatherings, and saw lots of friends and family, I really am a happy lucky girl!!