Brunsdon is considered one of the finest British printmakers and is represented in many major public collections such as the Tate Gallery, the Scottish Museum of Modern Art, the V&A, the Arts Council, MOMA in New York and the British Council. Brunsdon studied at the
Cheltenham College of Art from 1949 to 1953. After
national service he attended the
Royal College of Art from 1955 to 1958 under the tutelage of
Julian Trevelyan and others including
Edwin La Dell,
Edward Ardizzone and
Edward Bawden. Inspired initially by the great American abstract expressionists (and artists such as
Yves Klein) Brunsdons' early work in monochrome as well as colour assured his reputation. Showing by invite at the New Editions Exhibition (group show) at the Zwemmer Gallery 1961. By the 1970s Brunsdons' work became more figurative and led by landscape and turned further again to a more representational style in his later life. From 1958 to 1963 he was resident at
Digswell House when he began teaching portrait painting part-time at
St. Albans School of Art. He then moved to
Woburn, Bedfordshire. In 1969 he established the
printmaking department at St Albans College of Art, where he taught full-time for 16 years as Head of Printmaking while exhibiting extensively in Britain and abroad, until moving to Stradbroke in
Suffolk in 1977 and then to Cole Street, Wilby in 1983. Brunsdon was a full member of The
Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers and in 1965 a founder member of The
Printmakers Council. == Collections ==