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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(49 Artworks)
49 Artworks
Brooksby
Corner Balcony
13 x 13 cm1,160 CNYBrooksby
Balcony Geraniums
13 x 13 cm1,160 CNY- Sold
Brooksby
Chez moi - Parisian balcony
25 x 25 cm3,780 CNY Brooksby
Classic in Piazza
25 x 25 cm3,780 CNYBrooksby
Cafe le Bullier
100 x 100 cm42,800 CNYBrooksby
Tanker
120 x 40 cm22,900 CNYBrooksby
Fiat 500
13 x 13 cm1,160 CNYBrooksby
Glycine
13 x 13 cm1,160 CNYBrooksby
Havana Blue
19 x 19 cm1,980 CNYBrooksby
Ruelle Bormes les Mimosas
100 x 100 cm42,800 CNYBrooksby
Apollo
19 x 19 cm1,980 CNYBrooksby
La terrasse du Beauharnais
36 x 36 cm5,880 CNYBrooksby
Marianne
13 x 13 cm1,160 CNYBrooksby
Vielle Porte Fleurie
13 x 13 cm1,160 CNY- Sold
Brooksby
Toits Parisiens
36 x 36 cm5,880 CNY Brooksby
Rendez-vous au Café
19 x 19 cm1,980 CNYBrooksby
Le Bistrot de l'Amour
19 x 19 cm1,980 CNYBrooksby
Seine Cruise
36 x 36 cm5,880 CNYBrooksby
French Riviera Window
13 x 13 cm1,160 CNY- Sold
Brooksby
Geraniums
25 x 25 cm3,780 CNY - Sold
Brooksby
Flowery balcony: Chez Sylvie
25 x 25 cm3,780 CNY Brooksby
Le Néons de Paris
36 x 36 cm5,880 CNYBrooksby
Ferrari in Toscana
36 x 36 cm5,880 CNYBrooksby
Senequier au Soleil
36 x 36 cm5,880 CNYBrooksby
Fenêtre Ouverte - open window
13 x 13 cm1,160 CNYBrooksby
Cafe de Flore
50 x 50 cm12,600 CNYBrooksby
Le Sacré Coeur
36 x 36 cm5,880 CNY- Sold
Brooksby
Mercedes
13 x 13 cm1,160 CNY Brooksby
Huitres Servis
13 x 13 cm1,160 CNYBrooksby
Le Judge
13 x 13 cm1,160 CNYBrooksby
Batobus
25 x 25 cm3,780 CNYBrooksby
Tabac Monge
19 x 19 cm1,980 CNYBrooksby
Havana Taxi
36 x 36 cm5,880 CNY- Sold
Brooksby
Glycine
19 x 19 cm1,980 CNY Brooksby
Le Moulin Rouge
19 x 19 cm1,980 CNYBrooksby
Brasserie L'Européen
100 x 100 cm42,800 CNYBrooksby
French Riviera Alley
13 x 13 cm1,160 CNYBrooksby
Ruelle de Provence
36 x 36 cm5,880 CNY- Sold
Brooksby
Brasserie
36 x 36 cm5,880 CNY Brooksby
Cafe de Flore
36 x 36 cm5,880 CNYBrooksby
Deux Gars et Une Reine.
36 x 36 cm5,880 CNYBrooksby
Reflections and Souvenirs
36 x 36 cm5,880 CNY- Sold
Brooksby
Ruelle de Grimaud
36 x 36 cm5,880 CNY Brooksby
La Carte des Vins
13 x 13 cm1,160 CNYBrooksby
Glycine sur la veille porte en Provence
13 x 13 cm1,160 CNYBrooksby
Chaises
13 x 13 cm1,160 CNYBrooksby
500 Gold
25 x 25 cm3,780 CNY- Sold
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Coin Fleuri
25 x 25 cm3,780 CNY Brooksby
Le chateau
13 x 13 cm1,160 CNY