Saskatchewan Artist

Fire Escape - 2011 - by Michael Bromley

Michael Bromley

Michael Bromley was born in 1955 in Darjeeling, India. After living in the Himalayas and West Bengal, he moved with his family first to England and then to Canada. Settling in Moose Jaw, Bromley's father was a doctor and his mother was a high school art teacher. Bromley studied printmaking at the University of Regina, completing his Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1985. He then became involved with computer graphics, and has been called a pioneer in using the computer to create fine art.

In the early 2000s Bromley switched almost exclusively to working in oils on canvas. Influenced by artists including Cezanne, Picasso, and Matisse, Bromley sometimes worked from photographs and tended to paint environments he was familiar with: "I paint my world; the street, out the kitchen window, the mall parking lot, a row of houses. Everything that I have seen - order, design, drama in my everyday life."

Bromley exhibited his work throughout Saskatchewan, and in Winnipeg and Vancouver. He moved from Regina to Vancouver, British Columbia in 2013. After years to battling the disease ALS, Michael Bromley died in Vancouver in 2020.

He was NAC's Featured Artist in December 2012.