Martin Bradley was born in London, England in 1933. He attended St Paul's School, but ran away to sea at age 14, serving as a cabin boy. Bradley held his first solo exhibition in 1954 at Gimpel Fils, then exhibiting at Gallery One and the Redfern Gallery in London. In the early 1960s, he exhibited at the Rive Gauche Gallery in Paris a number of times. Martin Bradley is known for abstract and symbolic artworks, influenced by the calligraphy of China and Japan, as well as Buddhism, to which he converted. Bradley's works are held in the Tate Gallery collections in London UK, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, USA. His works have been collected by Dame Barbara Hepworth, Sir Roland Penrose, and Sir Herbert Read. He has been exhibited...