Born in Carmel, California, Paige Bradley knew she was an artist at a young age. Drawing from life by age ten, by fifteen she was leaving home every summer to study at art schools.

Through her undergraduate studies at Pepperdine University, Paige studied at the Florence Academy of Art. After Pepperdine, she was assistant sculptor on a monument for the Atlanta Olympic Games and went on to continue her education at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.


In 2001 Paige was voted into the National Sculpture Society, the Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club and The Salmagundi Club as a professional sculptor, and in 2009 a Gold Medal of Honor was awarded to her at The Allied Artists of America, Annual Juried Exhibition

Paige’s work is full of dichotomies; the beautiful and the ugly, the liberated and the contained, the falling and the floating. In her words: “The goal is to create truthful and courageous artwork, work that communicates what it feels like to be alive in the world today.”

Paige works from her studio in London and is represented in select galleries throughout the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882), also known as ‘The Sage of Concord”, was an American essayist, philosopher, and poet who lead the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He is regarded by many to be one of Americas most influential thinkers and authors and is seen as a champion of individualism.
When asked to sum up his work, he said his central doctrine was "the infinitude of the private man."

The quote “What lies behind you and what lies in front of you pales in comparison to what lies inside you” is a variation of a widely attributed (but unsourced) quote to Emerson which reads “What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us” as found on www.transcendentalists.com. The quote has also been attributed to Henry David Thoreau, William Maran, William Morrow and Oliver Wendell Holmes (father and son), but no precise source has been found in any of their works. The earliest confirmed source is in Henry Stanley Haskins's Meditations in Wall Street (1940).

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