Lori Bradley
407
88 Hatch Street
New Bedford, MA
www.loribradleyart.com
www.rusticlay.com
loribradley@comcast.net
48" x 70" installed Paint and mixed media on panel with ceramic mosaic panel
Leaves, twigs, shells, driftwood and eclectic decorative motifs flow across mirrors, vases, and wall art, forming highly textured, subtly colored, touchable surfaces. I make every ceramic element in these dimensional mosaics by hand.
I love mixing media! In my pieces and installations, I combine painting, printmaking and ceramic mosaic in different degrees.
In painting, I love the layered waxy effect of encaustic and found a way of achieving it with acrylics. I juxtapose multilayered digital photographic monoprints with panels of dimensional ceramic compositions.
16" h x 26" w Paint, photograph, and ceramic mosaic on panel
16" h x 26" w Paint, photograph, and ceramic mosaic on panel
Lori's ceramics and digital monotypes are included in numerous private collections throughout the United States. She exhibits her artwork in juried exhibitions nationally. In recent years, her artwork has been shown in the 2008 and 2009 Annual International Alternative Digital Printing Exhibition in Rochester, NY, the biannual State of Clay Exhibition at both the Lexington Arts Center and the Fuller Museum of Craft in Brockton, MA, The Digital Insight Exhibition at the Fuller Museum, The Art of Mosaic Exhibition at the Somerville Museum in Somerville, MA, An American Craftsman Galleries in New York, NY, Hope Gallery in Bristol, RI, All Fired Up Pottery and Gallery in Newport, RI, Art and Soul Gallery in Cranston, RI, Red Shift Gallery in Denver, CO, The Berkshire Arts Festival, The Rustic Show in Danbury, CT, The Fine Furnishings 2006 and 2007 Providence Shows, The Craft Today Exhibition at the Silvermine Arts Center in New Canaan, CT, and at the Marion Arts Center in Marion, MA of which art critic David Boyce wrote:
"... Ms. Bradley's dozen monoprints employ a technique which layers photographic images of natural landscapes, flora, and fauna, built upon the outline forms of Gothic window arches and similar architectonic frameworks. In paeans to the Victorian sensibility of urging a spiritual return to nature, she employs modern technology in this body of work to both illuminate and belie her delight in its flexibility. But she hasn't fully eschewed the artist's hand here, enhancing her images further with applied paint, colored pencil, inks, and gold leaf. The results bear an affinity to illustration, but with an intriguing perspective depth."
I’m inspired by memories of the autumn ritual I had with my mother of taking long hikes in search of plants, leaves and sticks for dried arrangements. My mother encouraged me to look up at the scenery around me but I was more interested in the patterns of leaves, twigs, rocks and small creatures I saw on the ground.
I was acutely aware of the unrelenting passage of time and how the patterns I was observing wouldn’t be the same, even if I turned around and walked back on the same path again.
Set of 4 panels - 24" x 24" each - Paint, photo, and mixed media on panel
