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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(64 Artworks)
64 Artworks
Brooksby
Rue Monge
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
Les Quais du Seine
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Panthéon Dôme
13 x 13 cm109 €Brooksby
Notre Dame et Toits de Paris
19 x 19 cm170 €Brooksby
Le Pyramide du Louvre
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
Les Beaux Jours
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
I remember Notre Dame
19 x 19 cm170 €Brooksby
Le Panthéon sur les Toits
13 x 13 cm109 €Brooksby
Ma Mere et Moi au Jardin
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
Au Bistrot
13 x 13 cm109 €Brooksby
Mes Roses
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Think Pink
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Hotel de Ville (Détail)
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
Yellow Boat
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Looking up
80 x 80 cm1 900 €Brooksby
Mon Favori
19 x 19 cm170 €Brooksby
Tin Reflections
19 x 19 cm170 €Brooksby
Sacre Cœur Blue Hour
19 x 19 cm170 €Brooksby
Le Rosé est servit
13 x 13 cm109 €Brooksby
La Seine Mon Amour
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Le Franc TTreur
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Le Tour
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
Sous les Combles
19 x 19 cm170 €Brooksby
La Pyramide
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
Bateau Mouche
19 x 19 cm170 €Brooksby
La Fontaine au Jardin du Luxembourg
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
Glorious Seine
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Paris Chiminies
19 x 19 cm170 €Brooksby
Le Pont Neuf au Soleil
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Le Balcon du Chat
19 x 19 cm170 €Brooksby
Chez Benoit
13 x 13 cm109 €Brooksby
Vers la place Vendôme
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Lovers on the Bridge
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
En route pour le Sacré Cœur
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
La Tour Eiffel
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Coin de rue de Monttessuy - Tour Eiffel
80 x 80 cm1 900 €Brooksby
Le Balcon de la Joie
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
Les Toits de Paris
19 x 19 cm170 €Brooksby
L'heure de l'apéro
19 x 19 cm170 €Brooksby
Le Faune au Jardin du Luxembourg
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
Chez Mon Amour
13 x 13 cm109 €Brooksby
Red Eye Cafe - Cafe Descartes Paris
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Le Pont des Arts
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
Les Deux Magots
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Hotel de Ville (Quais)
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
Parisian Window: Flower Power
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
La Maison des Fleurs
19 x 19 cm170 €Brooksby
Dans le Marché aux Fleurs
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
Chez maman
100 x 100 cm2 900 €Brooksby
Sunny-Side Paris
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Mon Amour
13 x 13 cm109 €Brooksby
Le Dôme d'Ardoise
13 x 13 cm109 €Brooksby
Le Cafe
13 x 13 cm109 €Brooksby
Le toit du coin
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
Montmartre La Nuit
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
Ready for Lunch
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
Cafe Georges V
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Parisian Window
13 x 13 cm109 €Brooksby
Promenade au Jardin de Luxembourg
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
L'Apéro est Servi
36 x 36 cm480 €