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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(132 Artworks)
132 Artworks
Brooksby
Rendez-vous au Café
19 x 19 cm180 EURBrooksby
Cafe le Bullier
100 x 100 cm3.050 EURBrooksby
Les Deux Magots
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
Dans le Marché aux Fleurs
25 x 25 cm280 EURBrooksby
Ma Mere et Moi au Jardin
25 x 25 cm280 EURBrooksby
Mon Amour
13 x 13 cm110 EURBrooksby
Je t'attends
13 x 13 cm110 EURBrooksby
Fenêtre Ouverte - open window
13 x 13 cm110 EURBrooksby
Glycine
13 x 13 cm110 EURBrooksby
En route pour le Sacré Cœur
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
Jean d'Arc
13 x 13 cm110 EURBrooksby
Apollo
19 x 19 cm180 EURBrooksby
Les Toits de Paris
19 x 19 cm180 EURBrooksby
Le Rosé est servit
13 x 13 cm110 EURBrooksby
Panthéon Dôme
13 x 13 cm110 EUR- Sold
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Toits de Paris
25 x 25 cm280 EUR Brooksby
les pécheurs
120 x 120 cm4.250 EURBrooksby
Tanker
120 x 40 cm1.650 EURBrooksby
Bistrot Ile Saint Louis
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
L'Apéro est Servi
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
Notre Dame et Toits de Paris
19 x 19 cm180 EURBrooksby
500 Gold
25 x 25 cm280 EURBrooksby
Vielle Porte Fleurie
13 x 13 cm110 EURBrooksby
Looking up
80 x 80 cm2.100 EURBrooksby
Le Pont Neuf au Soleil
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
le pécheur, Marseille
120 x 120 cm4.250 EURBrooksby
Rue Monge
13 x 13 cm110 EURBrooksby
Cafe de Flore
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
Balcon Parisien
19 x 19 cm180 EURBrooksby
Reflections and Souvenirs
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
French Riviera Village
80 x 80 cm2.100 EURBrooksby
La Seine Mon Amour
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
Le Judge
13 x 13 cm110 EURBrooksby
Le Balcon des Roses
25 x 25 cm280 EUR- Sold
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Chez moi - Parisian balcony
25 x 25 cm280 EUR Brooksby
Lovers on the Bridge
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
Deux Gars et Une Reine.
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
Glycine sur la veille porte en Provence
13 x 13 cm110 EUR- Sold
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Le Pont Neuf Mon Amour
19 x 19 cm180 EUR Brooksby
Glorious Seine
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
Sous les Combles
19 x 19 cm180 EURBrooksby
The parisian garrett
13 x 13 cm110 EURBrooksby
Bistrot du Peintre - Paris
36 x 36 cm480 EUR- Sold
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Brasserie
36 x 36 cm480 EUR - Sold
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Glycine
19 x 19 cm180 EUR Brooksby
Seine Cruise
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
I remember Notre Dame
19 x 19 cm180 EURBrooksby
Parisian Cafe Dream
19 x 19 cm180 EURBrooksby
Coin de rue de Monttessuy - Tour Eiffel
80 x 80 cm2.100 EURBrooksby
Le Pyramide du Louvre
25 x 25 cm280 EUR- Sold
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Le Marché aux Fleurs
36 x 36 cm480 EUR Brooksby
Havana Taxi
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
La Carte des Vins
13 x 13 cm110 EURBrooksby
Les Balcons
25 x 25 cm280 EURBrooksby
Mon Balcon Parisien
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
Paris Chiminies
19 x 19 cm180 EURBrooksby
Cafe Saint Jacques
25 x 25 cm280 EURBrooksby
Balcon Fleuri
25 x 25 cm280 EURBrooksby
Hotel de Ville (Quais)
25 x 25 cm280 EURBrooksby
Vers la place Vendôme
36 x 36 cm480 EUR