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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(72 Artworks)
72 Artworks
Brooksby
Yellow Boat
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Brooksby
Chez Flora
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Brooksby
Chez Mon Amour
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Brooksby
Chez maman
100 x 100 cmSGD 7,500Brooksby
La Fontaine au Jardin du Luxembourg
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Brooksby
Ready for Lunch
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Brooksby
Terrasse Parisienne
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Brooksby
Windowbox Geraniums
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Brooksby
Bougainvillier
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Brooksby
Deux Chevaux Orange
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Brooksby
Le Cafe
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Brooksby
Parisian Window: Flower Power
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Brooksby
Parisian Window
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Brooksby
Le Faune au Jardin du Luxembourg
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Brooksby
L'heure de l'apéro
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Brooksby
Hotel de Ville (Détail)
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Brooksby
Café Pause
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Brooksby
Cafe Georges V
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Brooksby
Bougainvillier
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Brooksby
l'Apéro Arrive
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Brooksby
Mini Rover
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Brooksby
Bateaux aux Jardins du Luxembourg
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Brooksby
Spring Love
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Brooksby
Cafe Parisien
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Brooksby
Les Quais du Seine
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Brooksby
Rendez-vous au café
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Brooksby
Fenêtre aux fleurs
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Brooksby
Vue sur le Panthéon
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Brooksby
Balcon au soleil
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Brooksby
Les Deux Magots
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Brooksby
Dans le Marché aux Fleurs
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Brooksby
Ma Mere et Moi au Jardin
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Brooksby
Mon Amour
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Brooksby
Je t'attends
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Brooksby
En route pour le Sacré Cœur
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Brooksby
Jean d'Arc
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Brooksby
Les Toits de Paris
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Brooksby
Le Rosé est servit
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Brooksby
Panthéon Dôme
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Brooksby
Bistrot Ile Saint Louis
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Brooksby
L'Apéro est Servi
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Brooksby
Notre Dame et Toits de Paris
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Brooksby
Looking up
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200Brooksby
Le Pont Neuf au Soleil
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Brooksby
Rue Monge
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Brooksby
Balcon Parisien
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Brooksby
La Seine Mon Amour
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Brooksby
Le Balcon des Roses
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Brooksby
Lovers on the Bridge
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Brooksby
Glorious Seine
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Brooksby
Sous les Combles
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Brooksby
The parisian garrett
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Brooksby
Bistrot du Peintre - Paris
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Brooksby
I remember Notre Dame
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Brooksby
Parisian Cafe Dream
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Brooksby
Coin de rue de Monttessuy - Tour Eiffel
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200Brooksby
Le Pyramide du Louvre
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Brooksby
Les Balcons
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Brooksby
Mon Balcon Parisien
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Brooksby
Paris Chiminies
19 x 19 cmSGD 390