ICONIC PALMS at First Street Gallery

March 5 – April 8, 2013


An Atlantic Beach resident, Melinda Bradshaw has been an artist at First Street Gallery since 2005 and creates all the graphics for the Gallery as well as several local businesses.  
For this exhibit - Iconic Palms, Melinda is displaying her photographic renditions of Florida palm trees.  Art has always been a part of her life, with an extensive artistic background spanning over the last 35 years and retired after 25 years as a graphics designer.

The majority of her years spent in hospital public relations and marketing, with the balance working for local newspapers.  A Florida State University graduate from the School of Visual Arts, she has always felt fortunate to have a career as an artist.  Photography has always been her passion, having purchased her first camera at the age of 11 with proceeds from selling Christmas cards.  Transferring from dark room photography to digital almost 10 years ago has enabled Melinda to combine her love of photography with her many years of experience in graphic art.  She feels “Digital art is the same as other more traditional art… it is just created with a different tool.  Art is about the visions of the artist, not the tools that were used to create it.”


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