Bio:
Jeanette Bradley studied painting at Indiana University and Children’s Book Illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design. Along the way she also acquired a degree in urban planning. Her debut picture book LOVE, MAMA is forthcoming from Roaring Brook Press (Macmillan) in January 2018. 
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Jeanette’s exuberant illustrations have won multiple awards, including the R. Michelson Gallery Emerging Artist Award. She once spent a summer as the artist-in-residence for a traveling art museum on a train. She currently lives in Rhode Island.

​Jeanette is represented by Emily Mitchell of Wernick & Pratt.
​Click here to download a pdf of art samples.


Artist's Statement:
I make picture books because I am fascinated by them as a complex art form. Picture books are meant to be read aloud - to be, in a way, a performance on a very intimate stage. The magic of picture books exists in the intersection of the reader, text, illustrations, and the book itself as an interactive art object. 
I work digitally but want my work to feel fresh, spontaneous, and organic. I want the viewer to have a sense of the human hand that went into the mark making on the virtual page. I work to create characters and stories that express the great diversity of human experience as well as universal themes. 
Two of my favorite books as a child were Mary Blair’s The Color Kittens and Frog and Toad are Friends by Arnold Lobel. I still love these books as an adult and re-read them often. My work has been influenced by Mary Blair’s exuberant use of color and Arnold Lobel’s ability to write about life from a child’s-eye perspective.


Some Favorites:
SCBWI - See my SCBWI member profile
Drawing Together (RISD-CE Children's Book Illustration blog) 
WNDB - We Need Diverse Books
PiBoIdMo - Picture Book Idea Month
ReFoReMo - Reading for Research Month