[1][2] Martin James Bradley was born in Richmond in SW London, England on 11 April 1931.
[3] He attended St Paul's School, but ran away to sea aged 14, serving as a cabin boy.
In the early 1960s, he exhibited at the Rive Gauche Gallery in Paris a number of times.
Bradley is known for abstract and symbolic artworks, influenced by the calligraphy of China and Japan, as well as Buddhism, to which he converted.
[5][6] Bradley's works are held in the Tate Gallery collections in London, UK,[7] and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, USA.