Glittering & rocking & bursting & blue

Blue Beach Days II by Jo Bradford

The radiant soda of the seashore fashions
Fun, foam and freedom.

The sea laves
The Shaven sand.
And the light sways forward

On self-destroying waves.

The rigor of the weekday is cast aside with shoes,
With business suits and traffic's motion;
The lolling man lies with the passionate sun,
Or is drunken in the ocean.........

.........O glittering and rocking and bursting and blue-
Eternities of sea and sky shadow no pleasure:
Time unheard moves and the heart of man is eaten
Consummately at leisure.

Excerpts from Far Rockaway by Delmore Schwartz

details from Blue Beach Days 2 by Jo Bradford

All Photographs © Jo Bradford

Le Paon

"What is riches to him

That has made a great peacock....

.....Adding feather to feather

For the pride of his eye"~ WB Yeats

Title: Le Paon (The Peacock)

Size: 8 x 8 inches

Media: Photography

Etsy Front Page

My Evening Silhouette Part III picture was featured on the Front Page of Etsy today.Thanks to BodyGarnish for making the featured treasury.

Etsy Front Page

My Forbidden Fruit picture was featured on the Front Page of Etsy today.

Thanks to sojourncuriosities for making the featured sellers treasury.

Desire To Inspire Feature

Thanks to the folk at Desire to Inspire who featured one of my pictures on their blog today

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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