Since she first picked up a paint brush at fourteen years old, Jane Bradley has reveled in color. Simple line drawings of people and horses now took on shades of meaning and emotion. To this day, color animates her richly-hued canvases. Second only to color is her love of rendering the human form. "There is a whole world to be discovered in a face, in a gesture, in the subtle turn of a hand," she says. "This is my frontier, something for which I never get tired of exploring. My enthusiasm spills over into my teaching and I try to bring people along on this adventure."
Jane received her MFA at the University of Utah in painting and Computer Animation in 1991. The twelve years that followed were devoted to her work as a computer animator and eventually as an Art Director for major console and computer game companies. Although she occasionally had done portraits, for the most part her painting had been set aside for her career in computer graphics. Then, in 2004, she decided to return to painting full time.
Since 2004 she has done numerous shows and won many awards for her work. She as participated in the CM Russel Auction, the Scottsdale Salon of Art and the Phippen Museum Western Art Show and Sale, for which she won the 2006 Best of Show for her painting "Red Shoes". Jane has chosen in the last few years to do fewer shows and instead concentrate on commissions and portraiture. In 2017 she was awarded Best of Show for her painting "Professor of Hip-Hop" in the yearly Portrait Artist of Arizona competition. She won Best of Show in the GVAL yearly show, and has been given two consecutive first place awards on Women Artists of the West online fall showcases.
She is a Signature member of the American Women Artists, a member of the Oil Painters of America, the Portrait Society of America, and a Associate member of Women Artists of the West.
