Bradley was born and raised in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, a rural area, but not removed from opportunity. Surrounded by the beauty of the landscape, artistic parents and grandparents, musical family members, and a healthy creative competition with cousins, Bradley’s artistic drive began early. Certainly the choice to pursue painting and his investigation of our relationship to the environment, our histories, and our relationships to each other, has been influenced by this upbringing.

After early college investigation of music, theater, languages, and literature, Bradley enrolled in The Art Institute of Boston. This began a serious dedication to painting that has sustained to this day. He graduated with a BFA in painting in 1990. Shortly thereafter he completed a summer program in Landscape painting at the Accademia Internazionale di Belle Arti in Treiste, Italy. Following a move to New Orleans, he continued his studies at the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts where he received the Shirley Lehman Award for creativity in 1995. Returning to the Northeast, Bradley enrolled in the Summer Residency program of The School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, completing that program in 1997. Since that time he has completed his MFA in painting at Johnson State College in 2006. Bradley has been living and painting in Johnson Vermont.