Michael Bromley was born in 1955 in Darjeeling, India. He moved with his family to Canada via England. , Bromley's father was a doctor and his mother, a high school art teacher in Moose Jaw. Bromley earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1985 from University of Regina majoring in printmaking and drawing. Michael has been called a pioneer in using the computer to create fine art. Bromley is influence by the early twentieth century greats like Cezanne, Picasso, and Matisse. Bromley sometimes works from photographs or familiar landscapes like the view from his kitchen window: “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.”