Painter in oil and tempera on wood panels with gesso ground, usually on a small scale; also an illustrator. C G Jung’s ideas of the collective unconscious were an influence, painting being Broomfield’s “way of exploring the world of the imagination”. Born in Warrington, Lancashire, she attended the local College of Art and Newport Art School, in 1990 joining Cecil’s Collins’ life classes at the Central School of Art. Published work included book-jackets for Cape, Bodley Head, Century Hutchinson, Little, Brown & Company and others; the 1995 calendar for Colin Dann’s Farthing Wood series; and greetings cards for Royle, Santoro Graphics, Pharaoh Fine Arts and others. She was a member of the Women’s Art Library and was featured in the International Women Artists’ Diary in 1988 and 1996.