Broadley was born on the
Isle of Sheppey in
Kent and studied at the
Ipswich School of Art from 1932 to 1935 and at the
Westminster School of Art in London between 1936 and 1939. Broadley also spent periods of time at the
East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing, the art school established and run by
Cedric Morris. Her recollections of her time there were included in the book
Benton End Remembered. In the 1930s she toured Europe with
Lucy Harwood, painting street scenes in
Bruges, Paris,
Dieppe and
Brittany. During
World War II Broadley worked as a volunteer with the
Women's Land Army. After the War she spent some time as a teacher before joining an Anglican religious order, the
Community of the Servants of the Cross, based at
Ham Common and, other than during a spell in Australia, appears to have done little painting. After leaving the order Broadley settled in
Suffolk and resumed painting, often with bold colours and brush strokes, and also embraced collage making. She had paintings exhibited at the
Royal Academy in London, with the
New English Art Club and had a solo exhibition of paintings and collages at the Graham & Oldham Gallery in Ipswich during 1999. ==References==