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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82 Artworks
Brooksby
Dans le Marché aux Fleurs
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
Café Pause
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Chez Mon Amour
13 x 13 cm109 €Brooksby
Le Marché aux Fleurs
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Mini Rover
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
Les Balcons
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
Sous les Combles
19 x 19 cm170 €Brooksby
Coin de rue de Monttessuy - Tour Eiffel
80 x 80 cm1 900 €Brooksby
Parisian Window: Flower Power
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
Ready for Lunch
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
Le Pyramide du Louvre
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
En route pour le Sacré Cœur
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Promenade au Jardin de Luxembourg
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
La Seine Mon Amour
19 x 19 cm170 €Brooksby
Bougainvillier
19 x 19 cm170 €Brooksby
La Tour Eiffel
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Les Toits de Paris
19 x 19 cm170 €Brooksby
Je t'attends
13 x 13 cm109 €Brooksby
Mon Amour
13 x 13 cm109 €Brooksby
Windowbox Geraniums
19 x 19 cm170 €Brooksby
Vue sur le Panthéon
19 x 19 cm170 €Brooksby
Balcon Fleuri
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
Le Pont des Arts
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
Les Quais au Soleil
19 x 19 cm170 €Brooksby
Terrasse Parisienne
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Bateaux aux Jardins du Luxembourg
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
Le Pont Neuf au Soleil
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Café Paris
50 x 50 cm880 €Brooksby
Jean d'Arc
13 x 13 cm109 €Brooksby
Rendez-vous au café
19 x 19 cm170 €Brooksby
Rue Monge
13 x 13 cm109 €Brooksby
Les Quais du Seine
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Cafe Georges V
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Le Cafe
13 x 13 cm109 €Brooksby
Cafe Saint Jacques
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
King Charles
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Vers la place Vendôme
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Coin Fleuri
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
Ma Mere et Moi au Jardin
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
Montmartre La Nuit
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
Lovers on the Bridge
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Le Pont Neuf Mon Amour
19 x 19 cm170 €Brooksby
Le Balcon des Roses
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
Notre Dame et Toits de Paris
19 x 19 cm170 €Brooksby
Au Bistrot
13 x 13 cm109 €Brooksby
Hotel de Ville (Quais)
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
Chez maman
100 x 100 cm2 900 €Brooksby
Bistrot du Peintre - Paris
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Paris Chiminies
19 x 19 cm170 €Brooksby
Balcon au soleil
19 x 19 cm170 €Brooksby
Sacre Cœur Blue Hour
19 x 19 cm170 €Brooksby
La Seine Mon Amour
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
l'Apéro Arrive
13 x 13 cm109 €Brooksby
Bougainvillier
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
Spring Love
19 x 19 cm170 €Brooksby
Deux Chevaux Orange
19 x 19 cm170 €Brooksby
I remember Notre Dame
19 x 19 cm170 €Brooksby
Mon Balcon Parisien
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Hotel de Ville (Détail)
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
Chez Flora
36 x 36 cm480 €