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Jules Bradbury

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My work is drawing-based, primarily charcoal and pastel, sometimes using fluid mediums of watercolour and ink, spilling over into monotype and experimental printmaking. This physical way of working embraces spontaneity and energetic expression. I'm drawn to complexity and also the overlooked. Curiosity prompts me to seek out the vitality in someone or something, particularly plantlife.

I form my work alongside the wild, questioning the way we regard the non-human and calling upon our creative imagination to relate to those other than ourselves.

My workshops––for the public and for creative practioners––form an extension of my artistic practice. Currently, I'm moving between drawing and painting, enjoying blurring the boundaries.

For now, my reach is focussed in the extensive rural region of the Scottish Borders.

I find life is never still. I see everything is moving and changing all around us, everywhere, all the time. And we are part of that.

That's all I know: impermanence––nothing waits.

I notice life offering itself to us again and again. I'm drawn to this dynamic nature and its shifting.

I see the chaos and embrace the uncertainty. I recognise an urgency in my work, also an exhilaration.

I choose to draw because I love the physicality of it; of making and leaving a mark. I find it sensuous.

I'm looking not to explain, not to capture, but simply to carry moments of my encounter with this.

I try to bring all of this to the page––it follows that incompleteness is an inevitable part of my work.

I watch the crows and hang out with muscular trees. I draw in the rain.

I am drawing to be porous to this world.