 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.From 1958 to 1963 he was resident at Digswell House when he began teaching portrait painting part-time at St. Albans School of Art.