The Digital Drawing Image Maker

Martha Jane Bradford has been a professional artist for 35 years, and her work is represented in numerous private, corporate, and museum collections in the USA, including the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, the Boston Public Library, the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts, the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine, and the Nelson Gallery/Atkins Museum in Kansas City. She received a Massachusetts Artists Fellowship in 1985 in Drawing and was a Finalist in Painting in 1989. The artist was educated at Mount Holyoke College. A member of The Boston Printmakers, the artist served on its board from 1994 - 2005.

Martha's digital drawings are drawn by hand in a piece of software called Corel Painter using virtual natural media and a digitizing tablet and pen; they are output as limited edition fine art prints on rag paper using an Epson or Iris inkjet printer. They are not reproductions, scans, or manipulated photographs.

The early etchings were done on zinc plates, employing a variety of techniques, including aquatint, hardground, softground, and spirit ground. More recently, the artist has turned to doing digital drawings designed to be printed on transparencies and transferred to photopolymer plates, which are then inked and printed like traditional etchings.

Martha writes in her artist's statement that "the subjects of my landscapes are ordinary scenes transformed by light in a way that suggests a spiritual narrative. My style is hyper-realist in order to present this numinous quality of the phenomenal world as truly existing. Villages along the Maine coast are a major source of my subject matter."

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