Halcyon Days

Halcyon Days by Jo Bradford

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It has been a fun week for the Poppytalk Gang as we celebrate summer colours week.  I have had a great time making new work especially for the occasion and including a few recent pictures from my back catalogue too.  Halcyon Days was a quick something I knocked up for Mondays Pink theme.  It has turned out to be something of an unexpected hit as it was selected to be an Utata Front Page this week.  What a lovely surprise :)  

Halcyon Days in now for sale in my Etsy shop

And my DaWanda Shop

xoxo

Happy Days - we have a winner!!

Happy Days by Jo Bradford

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Well yesterday marked the end of my 10 day Pay It Forward giveaway here on the Green Island Studios blog.

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I have just entered all of the entries into the random number generator and it came up with lucky number 43!! That's you Sabine, La Marquise des anges, congratulations on winning the June Giveaway!!

Sabine chose Sea Pinks as her prize, so I will hand print it this week and it will be winging its way to Sabine in the South Of France very soon.

Sabine, please let us all know what you decide to do to continue to pay it forward.... I love to hear where the good fortune goes next.

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The happy days picture featured on today's post is one of a series i took a few years ago and lost... but I stumbled across a shoe box full of discs this week as I was clearing out at my studio and was pleased to find a whole load of "lost" art :)) More to follow soon

Happy Weekend y'all!!

Jo xoxo

In Infinite Time

Lazy Sunny Afternoon by Jo Bradford

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"In infinite time,

in infinite matter,

in infinite space,

is formed a bubble-organism,

and that bubble lasts a while and bursts,

and that bubble is Me."

~Leo Tolstoy~

{from Anna Karenina}

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I have had a very busy week this week, making lots of new pretty things in my studio, and processing photos from the many photoshoots I've done recently. Far and away my favourite photo outing this week was a twilight shoot with Megan and Steph on their horses.... photos to follow shortly......

cheery colours

It's such a grey and rainy day today I needed a bit of sunny cheer....

☼ I took this last weekend on the bank holiday ☼

{photos by me.... Jo Bradford}

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Is there a more cheerful colour than yellow?

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I have finished beautifying my Dawanda shop with new listings and a new store banner.... I would love to hear what you think....

Green Island Art Dawanda Shop: http://en.dawanda.com/shop/GreenIslandArt

Sunshine dreams

Having mentioned last week that I was loving the colour yellow at the moment, I saw these Craspedia stems in the village florist the other day and had to buy some just because they remind me so much of the sun!!

Inside

Inside by Jo Bradford

I have been cramming a lot into my days the last few weeks. There has not been much time to blog between the activites. I have been delivering alternative process workshops, teaching people how to take photographs and develop and print them and also making and listing and selling new work on all of my galleries. There have been a lot of late nights recently and as I type my eyelids are feeling heavy and ready to close for the night.