Umbrella Work, (2023)
Coloured ‘tracedown’ carbon paper hot-mounted onto painted beech plywood board.
Bespoke designed frame with painted fluorescent back board.
30cm, 60cm, 90cm square
In Umbrella Work (2023), a suite of new drawings on coloured carbon paper based on the mesmerising geometry of the hop gardens of Bradley’s childhood landscape. Bradley sees the process of making these works as a form of meditation in which she painstakingly repeats complex linear patterns across blue carbon paper, thus transferring them onto the painted board beneath. The carbon paper is then fixed and hot mounted to the board. These intricate works have the character of an architectural blueprint or a personal DNA, the patterns of life that shape and form us.