Mary Bradbury (nee Ross) was born in Selkirk in the Scottish Borders, the daughter of Sinclair Ross, the local solicitor. She was interested in art from an early age, but her parents felt this was not a reliable career. Instead she qualified in Law from Edinburgh University, becoming the first woman solicitor in the Scottish Borders. Painting remained her enduring interest and active hobby.
In 1938 she accepted a job with the Council of Social Service in Sheffield and at the start of World War II began the Citizens Information Bureau. Her marriage to E.E.G.Bradbury, the birth of her daughter, the traumas of the War together with family illness left little time to paint. Her husband died in 1950 and some years later she took up her paints again. She was actively involved with local art groups and painted in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire as well as on motoring holidays in Europe. She became a magistrate in 1959, later being appointed as Deputy Chairman of the Sheffield Bench. She was on the Board of Governors of Manchester Prison and during this time met her colleague Alan Goodfellow JP and they married in 1971. She continued to paint and exhibit her work when time allowed. She became a widow for the second time in 1984.
Her pictures have been hung at public exhibitions in Sheffield, London, The Paris Salon, Edinburgh and Harrogate.
This Exhibition and Sale consists of approximately 45 oils, 45 watercolours and prints of flower pictures.