Dianne Bradley

My path to creative discovery began with being awarded a 3yr Art Scholarship at the National Art College of Sydney. With my newly minted degree, I went straight into working on magazines as a designer and illustrator.

Moving to London after getting married, I worked in the same industry - albeit on a much faster, grander scale - magazines and book publishing.

On returning to Australia, I was excited to find an industry in growth and used my experience to launch DOLLY, the first teenage magazine of its time, followed by BELLE magazine.

Over the following years, I stayed true to my calling and even throughout a break to start a family, I continued to illustrate books on gardening, travel, cookbooks & self-sufficiency (which was all the go at the time!) One of my career highlights was working on Gourmet Traveller, still one of my favourites.

Making the sea change from the Northern Beaches to another coastal area south of Sydney has been an incredibly rewarding decision.

Living amongst an inspirational landscape of flora and fauna has given me the motivation to take up my brushes and paints.

I’ve never felt more creatively satisfied than I have these past ten years.

This series of paintings were inspired by the Mediterranean-look garden we’ve planted in our south coast cottage.