Earth Day 2009

Earthrise by Jo Bradford

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Happy Earth Day!!

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This is one of my recent luminograms (a.k.a. light paintings) which I make in my darkroom by filtering coloured lights, and then painting with the remaining colours directly onto light sensitive photographic paper.

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The resulting visual art is located somewhere between photography and painting as it borrows heavily from both practices but results in something altogether different.

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This work is part of an ongoing series of work made over the past five years called Constructing Space, which explores the way we receive information about space images and space science.

High in Andalucia

Cortijo by Jo Bradford

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I have been high in the hills of Andalucia for a while, visiting my Mum.

Days filled with sunbathing by the pool, walking in the mountains, shopping in the old cobbled streets, and of course, taking hundreds of photos.

In April, the Cortijos (farmhouses) are surrounded by fields of wildflowers, which carpet the floor between the olive trees, such a beautiful sight.

Free Giveaway from Green Island Studios...

The free print giveaway I am hosting this month is gathering names daily.

If your name is not down yet and you want a chance to be entered into the free prize draw then click here to be transported by the magic of the wonderful web to the sign up place.

Almond Blossom

Almond Blossom by Jo Bradford

My Mum lives in the Andalucian Hills with views across the sea to Africa. Her home is high up on a hilltop and the slopes of her mountain top home are thick with almond and olive groves.

When the Almonds are in full blossom, the wonderful scent hangs thick in the warm Spanish evening air, as the birds and the bees buzz around gleefully collecting their pollen and nectar.

FREE GIVEAWAY

Blue Beach Days by Jo Bradford

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Here's your chance to WIN one of my giclee prints for free!!

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I got lucky today, as I was one of the fortunate people to win a prize of a free print in the Kate Boyce giveaway. In return she asks that the winners of her prints "pay it forward". For those of you not familiar with this concept....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay_it_forward ...

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All you have to do to be in with a chance of winning any one of the 8"x8" prints in my shop is to have a look through my Etsy store and see which is your favourite print, then leave me a comment here telling me which one you would like to win and keep your fingers crossed for a result. I will draw a name out of a hat on the 1st May.


I will send the lucky Winner one of my prints and in return I would love it if you decide to continue to do the "pay it forward" thing and do something yourself to Pay It Forward to some other lucky folk out there in the big wide world, but that's totally up to you.
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Sea Pinks by Jo Bradford

White Horses

White Horses by Jo Bradford

Here is one of the new works from the "Light Is Like Water" series that I made in February for the Poppytalk Handmade Show. This work is on my "table" at the current "Green Pop" Poppytalk Market. Come and see....

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By the way, I have been working 11 hour shifts in my darkroom over the past 10 days making new work. My creative streak is still in full swing and I am making the most of it!! I will upload some of those new creations any day now, so watch this space.

My table at Poppytalk Handmade - http://www.poppytalkhandmade.com/gallery46

j'adore la hellebore

I have several different Hellbore plants in my studio at the moment, they are such strangely beautiful plants. Here are a few more of the pictures I have made of them recently, I find it hard to walk past them without stopping a while to capture them from another angle.

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Pretty Little Posie feature

Thnks goes out to those lovely folk at Pretty Little Posie who featured my "Build Me Up Buttercup" Print on their blog today. There are lots of lovely items to see over there on this British based blog, so why not head on over and see for yourself.

I Have A Bird In Spring

I Have A Bird In Spring ~ by Jo Bradford

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I have a Bird in spring
Which for myself doth sing –
The spring decoys.
And as the summer nears –
And as the Rose appears,
Robin is gone.
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Yet do I not repine
Knowing that Bird of mine
Though flown –
Learneth beyond the sea
Melody new for me
And will return.
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~Emily Dickinson~

Pretty In Pink

Just listed in my Etsy store

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In The Pink by Jo Bradford

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My Grandmother-in-Law has some beautiful varieties of pink Camelia in her garden. Every year at around this time she gives me a posie or two to brighten up our house and my studio. It's Camelia time now and here are some of delights from Nan's garden this spring.

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Pretty In Pink by Jo Bradford

**Thanks Nan!**

Can't see the wood for the trees

At FrauWaldi's suggestion, she and I have made a diptych of of our polaroids this week for the polanoid diptych project. I think the weird bluey greens of my expired 669 film shot here in Cornwall go very well with FrauWaldis chocolate film shot in the Black Forest, Germany.....

Spring clean

I have spent a second day painting my studio white all over. It needed a bit of sprucing up, and with the help of my lovely landlord John, I now have 5 new picture shelves to stack my work up to ceiling height on my new white walls (sure beats having them all leaning up against the wall and littering the floor!!) Can't wait to get in there tomorrow when the paint is dry) to put out all my new work. I will take some pictures and post them when I am all done....

Modish Feature

Thanks to the lovely Jena Coray of Modish, who featured me on her super cool blog today. If you haven't already come across Modish, then head on over there and see for yourself, it's full of great goodies and inspirations galore.

waves pound the shore

Waves pound the shore by Jo Bradford

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I have just finished reconditioning one of my collection of vintage typewriters. This one is an Imperial Good Companion 4, a lovely little lightweight machine with a retro sparkly metallic turquoise green finish. I love how light the keys actions are considering it is a machine from the early 1960's. After typing up a few poems and to do lists, I started pulling prints off the wall and typing on them yesterday afternoon, as you can see from the TTV picture above. The text on this picture (of my local surfspot known as the Badlands) is a lovely quote (surprisingly, perhaps?) by Mohammed Ali.

classic poisons

Hellebore by Jo Bradford
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It's hard to believe that the subltly beautiful hellebore holds such a dark secret.... It is, after all, one of the four classic poisons--along with nightshade, hemlock, and aconite