Inspiration By Design Feature

Hello to Diane over at Inspiration By Design, in California, who published

a feature about my work on her blog today.

Tropical Night

Tropical Night by Jo Bradford

My first new listing in months.........

This is a long exposure photograph, taken at Midnight on

South Point Beach in Barbados.

The length of time the shutter was open

explains the rushing clouds and

the white reef break on the ocean

The Diaphanous Blue

The Diaphanous Blue by Jo Bradford

I have been so tied up with making new work recently, that I have not blogged anything for some time. Watch this space for sneak previews of my new work, but in the meantime, this is Diaphanous Blue, a personal favourite.

Print or Dye Feature

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I was featured on Print or Dye today in the Things I Love feature.

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Thanks to Sandra Romanoff the Brazilian interior and graphic designer living and working in sunny San Francisco for the feature about Green Island Studios!!

Poppytalk Handmade Feature

Thanks so much to Jan and Earl at Poppytalk, for this lovely feature about my work. Poppytalk is a Canadian design blog collecting inspiration and promoting emerging design talent.

I am truly honoured to have been chosen to be one of the Poppytalk stable!!

Etsy Front Page

My Evening Silhouette Part 2 picture made the Etsy front page today.

Thanks very much to moxiedesigns for making the treasury.

Appraise Art Feature

I was featured on the super cool website "Appraise Art", and I can't tell you how delighted I was to come across this!! Thank you Christian, for using one of my pictures to illustrate your article about what affordable works to invest in when starting your art collection!!

Read the article here

Christian Trabue writes the blog Appraise Art as "a guide to help you better understand the global Art Market". Christian is an art appraiser by trade and a member of the Appraisers Association of America. She lives and works in Kentucky but completes appraisals for art buyers and collectors all across the United States of America.

Twilight melts the moon away

Evening Silhouette a photograph

by Jo Bradford

It is the hour when from the boughs

The nightingale's high note is heard;

It is the hour when lovers' vows

Seem sweet in every whispered word;

And gentle winds, and waters near,

Make music to the lonely ear.

Each flower the dews have lightly wet,

And in the sky the stars are met,

And on the wave is deeper blue,

And on the leaf a browner hue,

And in the heaven that clear obscure,

So softly dark, and darkly pure.

Which follows the decline of day,

As twilight melts beneath the moon away.

Author: ~ Lord Byron

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The rapture in the lonely shore

White Water, Green Sea a photograph by Jo Bradford

Photograph © Jo Bradford

There is pleasure in the pathless woods,

there is rapture in the lonely shore;

There is society where none intrudes,

by the deep sea, and music in its roar;

I love not man the less,

but nature more.

Author: Lord Byron 1788-1824

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Budding Blossom

Photograph © Jo Bradford

Budding Blossom by Jo Bradford

Another May new buds and flowers shall bring:

Ah! why has happiness no second Spring?

~ Charlotte Smith

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Sunny Days

Photograph © Jo Bradford

Midday Meadow by Jo Bradford

I am never happier than when the sun is out - what a beautiful day xx

Saatchi Gallery & Harper Collins Book Cover Design Competition

To The Sea by Joanne Bradford

Several months ago I responded to a call for submissions on the Saatchi Gallery Online and submitted a design for a book cover.

I was pleasantly surprised to find out today that my design made it to the shortlist.....

Here is the official blurb...

HarperCollins and Saatchi Online are delighted to unveil the shortlist of twenty covers for the hardback edition of The Last Days of the Lacuna Cabal by Sean Dixon. This competition has thrown open the doors to everyone and the sheer numbers of entries and the range and quality has been impressive. We would like to thank everyone who has taken part and we hope that you will continue your journey in the wonderful world of the Lacuna Cabal when the book is published (1 July 2008).

To see the winner and the full short list click here..........

The Creek

The Creek by Jo Bradford
A 10 minute trip from my studio, this is a great place to escape for the afternoon in search of inspiration.

Spring has sprung!

Buy Singled Out by Jo Bradford

Evidence of Spring is all around now, there are flowers in the grass and in the trees, and the air has the sweet scent of blossom drifiting along it, hooray for Spring!

Big Blue Sea

Big Blue Sea by Jo Bradford

This is my newest listing to my Green Island Art shop - I took it on Sunday - I was in the dunes with my dog, enjoying the sun and these glimpses of the ocean through the long grass.