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)
82 Artworks
Brooksby
Les Deux Magots
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
L'Apéro est Servi
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Ensemble dans le Jardin
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
Yellow Boat
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Cafe Parisien
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
Fenêtre aux fleurs
13 x 13 cm109 €Brooksby
Le Rosé est servit
13 x 13 cm109 €Brooksby
Chez moi - Parisian balcony
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
Panthéon Dôme
13 x 13 cm109 €Brooksby
Looking up
80 x 80 cm1 900 €Brooksby
Chez Manon
19 x 19 cm170 €Brooksby
Parisian Window
13 x 13 cm109 €Brooksby
L'Apéro est Servi
19 x 19 cm170 €Brooksby
Balcon Parisien
19 x 19 cm170 €Brooksby
Parisian Cafe Dream
19 x 19 cm170 €Brooksby
Le Faune au Jardin du Luxembourg
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
The parisian garrett
13 x 13 cm109 €Brooksby
L'heure de l'apéro
19 x 19 cm170 €Brooksby
La Fontaine au Jardin du Luxembourg
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
Bistrot Ile Saint Louis
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Glorious Seine
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Brasserie
36 x 36 cm480 €