Martin Broadbent was born in 1944 in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. He attended the Leeds College of Art and Design from 1963-1967 went on to study for a year at the Hertfordshire College of Art and Design. After nine years of teaching in London, Broadbent shifted his focus to printmaking. He started as a lithographic printer with Alan Cox of Sky Editions in an old warehouse overlooking the Thames. In 1979 he started his own lithographic studio which he called Ingham Press. Over the years Broadbent earned a reputation as a master printer and worked with Trevor Grimshaw, George Guest and Bryan Organ. Broadbent has always considered himself to be an artist before a printmaker. He held his first one man show in 1984 at Business Interiors in Bristol, after a major commission for prints and paintings from the CEGB. He has also taken part in many group exhibitions in the UK.