Painter and designer, born in Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire. She studied theatre design and painting and drawing at Slade School of Fine Art, 1945–53, her teachers including Vladimir Polunin, then went on to Edinburgh College of Art. Was a prizewinner at John Moore’s Exhibition, Liverpool, 1962. Showed widely, including New Art Centre, RA, Richard Demarco Gallery in Edinburgh and Galerie Creuze, in Paris. One-man exhibitions included Camden Arts Centre, 1978, and she had a shared exhibition at Austin/Desmond Fine Art, Sunninghill. Bruce was pioneer and director of Burleighfield Art, 1970–6, and was chairman of WIAC, 1973–9. From 1981 she lived in Somerset. She worked in watercolour on a large scale, producing landscapes of England and abroad, describing her pictures as “the summing up of my experience of living”.