Adrienne Bradford
Craft enthusiast, Adrienne Bradford, has been interested in art and nature her whole life. Her love for looming and basketry has been on going hobby since she discovered it. Originally from Asheville, N.C., Adrienne studied horticulture at Haywood Community College in hopes to become a landscape designer. Her interest in making it a career dwindled, while her interest in anatomy grew. In 2010, she moved to Charleston, S.C. Where she met her husband and attended Southeastern Institute to obtain her massage therapy license . One day while observing her husband’s bow tie collection, and in need of a gift for him, an idea came to mind. One that had not been created by the fashion industry. The handwoven garden bow tie! Adrienne continues to be inspired by her garden and the love for the outdoors. Adrienne happily resides in Charleston with her bow tie wearing husband and two fun loving girls.
Artist statement:
These original bow ties express nature’s brilliance and resilience. They have exercised and stretched my minds ability to think outside of the box with texture, plants, passion, and function in everyday life. Plants are the foundation of many things in our human existence. They can often be therapeutic in multiple ways. These bow ties reflect the beauty of casual difference, uniqueness, history, and of human nature. It also reminds me to open my eyes a little wider to our waste. Trash can often be treasure. How splendid it is to reuse and recycle. Basketry, made from my garden debris, is one of the oldest crafts, and is now, a new fashion.
I have been influenced not only from my horticulture teachers, but basketry artist Matt Tommey, influential entrepreneur Gary Vee, and my bow tie wearing husband. They have each reminded me there are no limits, to fail forward, and push through any obstacle.
Wander, harvest, dry, sterilize, with a little weaver fever...snip, sew, and attach. I grow bows. It grounds me. I hope it grounds you.
Adrienne A. Bradford
Artist statement:
These original bow ties express nature’s brilliance and resilience. They have exercised and stretched my minds ability to think outside of the box with texture, plants, passion, and function in everyday life. Plants are the foundation of many things in our human existence. They can often be therapeutic in multiple ways. These bow ties reflect the beauty of casual difference, uniqueness, history, and of human nature. It also reminds me to open my eyes a little wider to our waste. Trash can often be treasure. How splendid it is to reuse and recycle. Basketry, made from my garden debris, is one of the oldest crafts, and is now, a new fashion.
I have been influenced not only from my horticulture teachers, but basketry artist Matt Tommey, influential entrepreneur Gary Vee, and my bow tie wearing husband. They have each reminded me there are no limits, to fail forward, and push through any obstacle.
Wander, harvest, dry, sterilize, with a little weaver fever...snip, sew, and attach. I grow bows. It grounds me. I hope it grounds you.
Adrienne A. Bradford