"For Jean Bradbury (Canadian, b. Britain 1963), her painting of a snowshoe hare in a winter landscape helped "crystalize" the decision between science versus imagination, reality versus fantasy in her work. "I used to invent plants and creatures and set them in imagined spaces but now I am happier painting 'real' plants and animals copied accurately from nature," she said. "But the accurate depiction of plants and animals is still not the purpose of my work - it is just the language I use to tell the story. The animals represent me, or you the viewer, surrounded by a world of emotion."-- Adapted from container.
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