Brooksby | Contemporary Artist: Artworks & Biography
Brooksby
- France
Painter
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When I paint, my canvas becomes a window that opens onto another dimension.
Brooksby showed an early aptitude for drawing. To keep up with her father's business travels, her family traveled constantly across the United States. This itinerant childhood gave the American artist a real appetite for wandering. By the age of eight, she was already studying model drawing at the University of California, Los Angeles. Two years later, she was apprenticed to a Japanese ceramist in West Virginia, and later became interested in photography. At the Beaux-Arts, she discovered a passion for sculpture and graduated in 1987, just before moving to Florence, Italy, where she settled for over twenty years.
Her love affair with painting began in the Tuscan countryside, during scooter rides. She would ride around with her easel and canvases hanging on her luggage rack. In 2006, her wandering spirit wakes up. She visited Paris for a weekend and decided to settle there. The French capital inspired her first urban scenes, a major axis of her work. Brooksby considers herself a colorist and devotes part of her paintings to the "blue hour", that in-between time of day when it is neither day nor night. She claims to belong to the American "Contemporary Realism" movement. Very much anchored in the reality of the moment, her works are intended as testimonies of an era. She currently lives and works on the French Riviera. The return to the Mediterranean inspires her to paint again. She paints on the spot the alleys of the villages,
- 2018Exhibition at the CocoonBrussels, Belgium
- 2016Participation in Luxembourg Art FairLuxembourg, Luxembourg
- 2010James Watson buys her a paintingCold Spring Harbor in New York, United States of America (the)
- 2001Interviewed on NBC's The Today ShowFlorence, Italy
- 1965BirthNew York, United States of America (the)
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(107 Artworks)
107 Artworks
Brooksby
Cafe de Flore
50 x 50 cm1.150 EURBrooksby
Au marché Mouffetard
100 x 100 cm3.050 EURBrooksby
Times Square light
50 x 50 cm1.150 EURBrooksby
Charlie's Cab
50 x 50 cm1.150 EURBrooksby
Corvette Party
80 x 80 cm2.100 EURBrooksby
Fenêtre aux fleurs
13 x 13 cm110 EURBrooksby
Chez Manon
19 x 19 cm180 EURBrooksby
Bougainvillier
19 x 19 cm180 EURBrooksby
Les Quais du Seine
36 x 36 cm480 EUR- Sold
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Le rouge
13 x 13 cm110 EUR - Sold
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Le Pont Neuf
13 x 13 cm110 EUR Brooksby
L'Apéro est Servi
19 x 19 cm180 EURBrooksby
Cafe le Bullier
100 x 100 cm3.050 EUR- Sold
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Venus au Jardin de Plantes
25 x 25 cm280 EUR Brooksby
Cafe Parisien
25 x 25 cm280 EURBrooksby
The parisian garrett
13 x 13 cm110 EURBrooksby
Rendez-vous au café
19 x 19 cm180 EURBrooksby
Bateaux aux Jardins du Luxembourg
25 x 25 cm280 EURBrooksby
Les Balcons
25 x 25 cm280 EUR- Sold
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Flowery balcony: Chez Sylvie
25 x 25 cm280 EUR Brooksby
I remember Notre Dame
19 x 19 cm180 EURBrooksby
Le Pont Neuf au Soleil
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
Au Bistrot
13 x 13 cm110 EURBrooksby
Café Paris
50 x 50 cm1.150 EURBrooksby
Notre Dame et Toits de Paris
19 x 19 cm180 EURBrooksby
Balcon Fleuri
25 x 25 cm280 EURBrooksby
Le Pyramide du Louvre
25 x 25 cm280 EURBrooksby
les pécheurs
120 x 120 cm4.250 EURBrooksby
Chez moi - Parisian balcony
25 x 25 cm280 EUR- Sold
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Toits Parisiens
36 x 36 cm480 EUR Brooksby
Lovers on the Bridge
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
Brasserie
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
Bistrot du Peintre - Paris
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
Le Balcon des Roses
25 x 25 cm280 EURBrooksby
La Tour Eiffel
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
King Charles
36 x 36 cm480 EUR- Sold
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Parisian yorkie
13 x 13 cm110 EUR - Sold
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Geraniums
25 x 25 cm280 EUR Brooksby
Deux Chevaux Orange
19 x 19 cm180 EURBrooksby
Café Pause
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
Spring Love
19 x 19 cm180 EURBrooksby
La Seine Mon Amour
19 x 19 cm180 EURBrooksby
Vue sur le Panthéon
19 x 19 cm180 EURBrooksby
La Seine Mon Amour
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
French Riviera Village
80 x 80 cm2.100 EURBrooksby
Yellow Boat
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
Promenade au Jardin de Luxembourg
25 x 25 cm280 EURBrooksby
L'heure de l'apéro
19 x 19 cm180 EUR- Sold
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Porte Fleurie
13 x 13 cm110 EUR Brooksby
Ruelle Bormes les Mimosas
100 x 100 cm3.050 EURBrooksby
Parisian Window: Flower Power
25 x 25 cm280 EURBrooksby
Sous les Combles
19 x 19 cm180 EUR- Sold
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Toits de Paris
25 x 25 cm280 EUR Brooksby
Hotel de Ville (Quais)
25 x 25 cm280 EURBrooksby
Balcon au soleil
19 x 19 cm180 EURBrooksby
Je t'attends
13 x 13 cm110 EURBrooksby
Tanker
120 x 40 cm1.650 EURBrooksby
L'Apéro est Servi
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
Les Quais au Soleil
19 x 19 cm180 EURBrooksby
Mon Balcon Parisien
36 x 36 cm480 EUR