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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(123 Artworks)
123 Artworks
Brooksby
Corner Balcony
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Brooksby
Au marché Mouffetard
100 x 100 cmSGD 7,500Brooksby
Balcony Geraniums
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Brooksby
Corvette Party
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200- Sold
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Parisian yorkie
13 x 13 cmSGD 230 Brooksby
En route pour le Sacré Cœur
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Brooksby
Bateaux aux Jardins du Luxembourg
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Brooksby
Ferrari in Toscana
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Brooksby
Chaises
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Brooksby
L'Apéro est Servi
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100- Sold
Brooksby
La Nuit à la Brasserie l'Européen
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100 Brooksby
Balcon Fleuri
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Brooksby
Le Moulin Rouge
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Brooksby
Tabac Monge
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Brooksby
Geraniums
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Brooksby
le pécheur, Marseille
120 x 120 cmSGD 9,800Brooksby
Hotel de Ville (Détail)
25 x 25 cmSGD 650- Sold
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Un Clin d'œil sur Sacre Cœur
19 x 19 cmSGD 390 Brooksby
Le Pont Neuf Mon Amour
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Brooksby
Parisian Window: Flower Power
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Brooksby
Fiat 500
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Brooksby
L'Apéro est Servi
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Brooksby
Le Néons de Paris
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Brooksby
Toits de Paris
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Brooksby
Yellow Boat
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Brooksby
l'Apéro Arrive
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Brooksby
Ensemble dans le Jardin
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Brooksby
Reflections and Souvenirs
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Brooksby
Havana Taxi
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Brooksby
Havana Blue
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Brooksby
Notre Dame et Toits de Paris
19 x 19 cmSGD 390- Sold
Brooksby
Le Moulin Rouge
13 x 13 cmSGD 230 Brooksby
Marianne
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Brooksby
Chez Manon
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Brooksby
Le Sacré Coeur
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Brooksby
French Riviera Window
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Brooksby
Glycine sur la veille porte en Provence
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Brooksby
Windowbox Geraniums
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Brooksby
Lovers on the Bridge
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Brooksby
Mercedes
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Brooksby
Mon Amour
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Brooksby
Le chateau
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Brooksby
Cafe Parisien
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Brooksby
Looking Up
100 x 100 cmSGD 7,500Brooksby
Batobus
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Brooksby
Chez Maman
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200- Sold
Brooksby
Venus au Jardin de Plantes
25 x 25 cmSGD 650 Brooksby
French Riviera Alley
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Brooksby
les pécheurs
120 x 120 cmSGD 9,800Brooksby
Chez Mon Amour
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Brooksby
Glycine
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Brooksby
Le Cafe
13 x 13 cmSGD 230- Sold
Brooksby
Les Quais
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100 Brooksby
La Seine Mon Amour
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Brooksby
Promenade au Jardin de Luxembourg
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Brooksby
Ready for Lunch
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Brooksby
Deux Chevaux Orange
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Brooksby
Le Judge
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Brooksby
500 Gold
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Brooksby
Parisian Balcony - Chez Moi
25 x 25 cmSGD 650