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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(72 Artworks)
72 Artworks
Brooksby
Hotel de Ville (Détail)
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Le Panthéon sur les Toits
13 x 13 cm239 CADBrooksby
Cafe Georges V
36 x 36 cm999 CADBrooksby
Looking up
80 x 80 cm3,839 CADBrooksby
Panthéon Dôme
13 x 13 cm239 CADBrooksby
Sacre Cœur Blue Hour
19 x 19 cm359 CADBrooksby
Sur Le Pont
25 x 25 cm589 CADBrooksby
Le Franc TTreur
36 x 36 cm999 CADBrooksby
Promenade au Jardin de Luxembourg
25 x 25 cm589 CADBrooksby
Sunny-Side Paris
36 x 36 cm999 CADBrooksby
Sacre Coeur sur les toits
19 x 19 cm359 CADBrooksby
I remember Notre Dame
19 x 19 cm359 CADBrooksby
La Tour Eiffel
36 x 36 cm999 CADBrooksby
La Seine Mon Amour
36 x 36 cm999 CADBrooksby
Café Paris
50 x 50 cm1,979 CADBrooksby
Chez Mon Amour
13 x 13 cm239 CADBrooksby
Sous les Combles
19 x 19 cm359 CADBrooksby
Glorious Seine
36 x 36 cm999 CADBrooksby
Notre Dame et Toits de Paris
19 x 19 cm359 CADBrooksby
Vers la place Vendôme
36 x 36 cm999 CADBrooksby
Bateau Mouche
19 x 19 cm359 CADBrooksby
Les Deux Magots
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Le Cafe
13 x 13 cm239 CADBrooksby
Coin de rue de Monttessuy - Tour Eiffel
80 x 80 cm3,839 CADBrooksby
Rue Monge
13 x 13 cm239 CADBrooksby
Les Quais du Seine
36 x 36 cm999 CADBrooksby
Red Eye Cafe - Cafe Descartes Paris
36 x 36 cm999 CADBrooksby
Ma Mere et Moi au Jardin
25 x 25 cm589 CADBrooksby
Les Beaux Jours
36 x 36 cm999 CADBrooksby
Yellow Boat
36 x 36 cm999 CADBrooksby
Le Pont des Arts
25 x 25 cm589 CADBrooksby
L'heure de l'apéro
19 x 19 cm359 CADBrooksby
Bateaux aux Jardins du Luxembourg
25 x 25 cm589 CADBrooksby
La Pyramide
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Vue sur le Panthéon
19 x 19 cm359 CADBrooksby
Tin Reflections
19 x 19 cm359 CADBrooksby
Mes Roses
36 x 36 cm999 CADBrooksby
Le Pont Neuf au Soleil
36 x 36 cm999 CADBrooksby
Dans le Marché aux Fleurs
25 x 25 cm589 CADBrooksby
Louvre Love
19 x 19 cm359 CADBrooksby
Le toit du coin
25 x 25 cm589 CADBrooksby
Think Pink
36 x 36 cm999 CADBrooksby
Parisian Window: Flower Power
25 x 25 cm589 CADBrooksby
Le Balcon du Chat
19 x 19 cm359 CADBrooksby
Les Toits de Paris
19 x 19 cm359 CADBrooksby
Urban garden
36 x 36 cm999 CADBrooksby
Hotel de Ville (Quais)
25 x 25 cm589 CADBrooksby
La Fontaine au Jardin du Luxembourg
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Love Balcony
36 x 36 cm999 CADBrooksby
Mon Favori
19 x 19 cm359 CADBrooksby
Le Faune au Jardin du Luxembourg
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Montmartre La Nuit
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Ready for Lunch
25 x 25 cm589 CADBrooksby
Au Bistrot
13 x 13 cm239 CADBrooksby
Mon Amour
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Le Rosé est servit
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En route pour le Sacré Cœur
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l'Apéro Arrive
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L'Apéro est Servi
19 x 19 cm359 CADBrooksby
Jean d'Arc
13 x 13 cm239 CAD