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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(74 Artworks)
74 Artworks
Brooksby
Au marché Mouffetard
100 x 100 cm3.100 EURBrooksby
Corvette Party
80 x 80 cm2.150 EURBrooksby
French Riviera Village
80 x 80 cm2.150 EURBrooksby
Sur Le Pont
25 x 25 cm285 EURBrooksby
Sous les Combles
19 x 19 cm185 EURBrooksby
Glorious Seine
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
Looking up
80 x 80 cm2.150 EURBrooksby
Le Balcon de la Joie
25 x 25 cm285 EURBrooksby
Tin Reflections
19 x 19 cm185 EURBrooksby
Mon Amour
13 x 13 cm115 EURBrooksby
Café Paris
50 x 50 cm1.200 EURBrooksby
Les Deux Magots
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
Les Quais du Seine
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
Ma Mere et Moi au Jardin
25 x 25 cm285 EURBrooksby
Sacre Coeur sur les toits
19 x 19 cm185 EURBrooksby
Sunny-Side Paris
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
Notre Dame et Toits de Paris
19 x 19 cm185 EURBrooksby
La Pyramide
25 x 25 cm285 EURBrooksby
Le Pont Neuf au Soleil
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
La Fontaine au Jardin du Luxembourg
25 x 25 cm285 EURBrooksby
Le Balcon du Chat
19 x 19 cm185 EURBrooksby
En route pour le Sacré Cœur
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
Montmartre La Nuit
25 x 25 cm285 EURBrooksby
Rue Monge
25 x 25 cm285 EURBrooksby
Hotel de Ville (Détail)
25 x 25 cm285 EURBrooksby
Mon Favori
19 x 19 cm185 EURBrooksby
Vue sur le Panthéon
19 x 19 cm185 EURBrooksby
Les Toits de Paris
19 x 19 cm185 EURBrooksby
Le Dôme d'Ardoise
13 x 13 cm115 EURBrooksby
Le toit du coin
25 x 25 cm285 EURBrooksby
Bateau Mouche
19 x 19 cm185 EURBrooksby
Le Rosé est servit
13 x 13 cm115 EURBrooksby
Le Pyramide du Louvre
25 x 25 cm285 EURBrooksby
Cafe Georges V
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
Chez Benoit
13 x 13 cm115 EURBrooksby
La Seine Mon Amour
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
Le Tour
25 x 25 cm285 EURBrooksby
l'Apéro Arrive
13 x 13 cm115 EURBrooksby
Le Panthéon sur les Toits
13 x 13 cm115 EURBrooksby
les pécheurs
120 x 120 cm4.250 EURBrooksby
Ready for Lunch
25 x 25 cm285 EURBrooksby
L'Apéro est Servi
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
Chez maman
100 x 100 cm3.100 EURBrooksby
Parisian Window: Flower Power
25 x 25 cm285 EURBrooksby
I remember Notre Dame
19 x 19 cm185 EURBrooksby
Au Bistrot
13 x 13 cm115 EURBrooksby
Chez Mon Amour
13 x 13 cm115 EURBrooksby
Mes Roses
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
Love Balcony
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
Le Cafe
13 x 13 cm115 EURBrooksby
Hotel de Ville (Quais)
25 x 25 cm285 EURBrooksby
Yellow Boat
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
Louvre Love
19 x 19 cm185 EURBrooksby
Coin de rue de Monttessuy - Tour Eiffel
80 x 80 cm2.150 EURBrooksby
L'heure de l'apéro
19 x 19 cm185 EURBrooksby
Red Eye Cafe - Cafe Descartes Paris
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
La Maison des Fleurs
19 x 19 cm185 EURBrooksby
Vers la place Vendôme
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
Urban garden
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
Bateaux aux Jardins du Luxembourg
25 x 25 cm285 EUR