Current Art Projects
I am continuing to draw my trash in the series "Carbon Footprints" - large drawings of the smaller things in life.
I am really enjoying drawing from life and seeing the effects of combining the pastel pencil and charcoal.
I am also having fun
It's like drawing with eye shadow.
WAY too much fun.
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Upcoming Shows
Exhibitors' Co-op : A Celebration of the Heart
January 20 - April 17 2010
Berkeley Heights, NJ
Exhibitors' Co-op : The Cube and I
March 14 - April 25 2010
West Orange JCC, West Orange NJ
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Artist Statement
I want to show you something that you have seen a thousand times, in such a way that you realize you have never really seen it before. So that you too will pause in your day … just for a moment … to stop and look.
If I can make you notice the extraordinary beauty of a papery onion skin shining like stained glass, just before you peel and chop it for tonight’s dinner;
see, before you empty the dishwasher yet again, the sudden sparkling of sunlit dishes;
appreciate, just for a moment, the deep rich color of a plum smudged with a dusty blue bloom before you sink in your teeth, then I have done the job I set out to do. I believe it is in these brief moments of reflection that happiness lies.
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Biography
Jo Bradney was born in London, UK and grew up off the south coast of England in the idyllic much-thatched Isle of Wight, memories of which are still the subject of many of her smaller works. After a fun-filled three years studying ancient history and literature for a BA in Classical Studies from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in England’s far north, she married and moved to America in 1996.
She came looking for adventure – and found out that she could draw.
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Recent Shows
2010
The Cube and I West Orange JCC, West Orange, NJ March 2010
TLC Arts Festival Morris Plains, NJ February 2010
Jo Bradney & Rosa Katzenelson : points of departure West Orange JCC, West Orange, NJ January 2010
A Celebration of Heart Summit Medical Group, Berkeley Heights, NJ January 2010
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