Susan Bradford
mixed media paintings & monotype
of Susan Helman Bradford Art & Design
1027 Summit Avenue
Napa, CA 94559
(707) 974-4154
sehbstudio@aol.com

 

My work is primarily multi-media paintings and printing. The process of painting and printing is always a revelation. As the painting develops or the print is pulled from the press I am inspired by the work, my original spark of an idea driven by its own energy to completion. Creating is my medium for exploring something I cannot begin to define in any other way.

In my work architectural methods and symbols are often used as an abstract language, a sub text. It becomes an organizer, providing a datum. Architecture in a broad definition is expressed in everything around us from roots and rocks, to atoms and DNA, to mud huts and mile high towers. With this language I can provide pattern to the un-patterned, a common denominator.

My use of text expresses and communicates on a level that is more direct than architecture. Whether it is used as a definitive element or abstract letters, text provides a overly recognizable ordering device which we can accept as having meaning in its immediate context or as part of something much larger.

Blue Line, 30x30, Acrylic on canvas

Blue Yellow with Circles, 9.5 x 10, Monotype

Would I Like It, 9.5 x 10, Monotype

Marriage Quilt, 84 x 92, Printed & Hand Dyed Textiles

House Unraveled, 9.75 x 10, Monotype

Open, 15.5x9.75, Monotype

Kinetic Calm 02-04, Acrylic on Paper

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