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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120 Artworks
Brooksby
Cafe Parisien
25 x 25 cm335 €Brooksby
Senequier au Soleil
36 x 36 cm565 €Brooksby
Tanker
120 x 40 cm1 400 €Brooksby
The parisian garrett
13 x 13 cm135 €Brooksby
Glycine sur la veille porte en Provence
13 x 13 cm135 €Brooksby
Sacre Cœur Blue Hour
19 x 19 cm205 €Brooksby
Deux Gars et Une Reine.
36 x 36 cm565 €Brooksby
Classic in Piazza
25 x 25 cm335 €Brooksby
500 Gold
25 x 25 cm335 €Brooksby
Terrasse Parisienne
36 x 36 cm565 €Brooksby
Glycine
13 x 13 cm135 €Brooksby
Jean d'Arc
13 x 13 cm135 €Brooksby
Bistrot Ile Saint Louis
36 x 36 cm565 €Brooksby
Le rouge
13 x 13 cm135 €Brooksby
Ruelle Bormes les Mimosas
100 x 100 cm2 400 €Brooksby
Les Quais au Soleil
19 x 19 cm205 €Brooksby
Huitres Servis
13 x 13 cm135 €Brooksby
Cafe de Flore
50 x 50 cm1 050 €Brooksby
French Riviera Window
13 x 13 cm135 €Brooksby
Apollo
19 x 19 cm205 €- Sold
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Un Clin d'œil sur Sacre Cœur
19 x 19 cm205 € Brooksby
Parisian Window
13 x 13 cm135 €Brooksby
La Seine Mon Amour
19 x 19 cm205 €Brooksby
Rendez-vous au café
19 x 19 cm205 €Brooksby
Vielle Porte Fleurie
13 x 13 cm135 €Brooksby
Hotel de Ville (Quais)
25 x 25 cm335 €- Sold
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Fleurs Rouges sur le Balcon Parisien
19 x 19 cm205 € - Sold
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Balcon de Paris
13 x 13 cm135 € Brooksby
Montmartre La Nuit
25 x 25 cm335 €Brooksby
La Fontaine au Jardin du Luxembourg
25 x 25 cm335 €Brooksby
Chez Manon
19 x 19 cm205 €Brooksby
Le Moulin Rouge
19 x 19 cm205 €Brooksby
Cafe de Flore
36 x 36 cm565 €Brooksby
Promenade au Jardin de Luxembourg
25 x 25 cm335 €Brooksby
Paris Chiminies
19 x 19 cm205 €Brooksby
Chaises
13 x 13 cm135 €- Sold
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Parisian yorkie
13 x 13 cm135 € Brooksby
Reflections and Souvenirs
36 x 36 cm565 €Brooksby
Le Pont Neuf Mon Amour
19 x 19 cm205 €- Sold
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Haussmann Facade
13 x 13 cm135 € Brooksby
Panthéon Dôme
13 x 13 cm135 €Brooksby
Ready for Lunch
25 x 25 cm335 €Brooksby
Balcon Parisien
19 x 19 cm205 €Brooksby
La Carte des Vins
13 x 13 cm135 €Brooksby
Cafe Saint Jacques
25 x 25 cm335 €Brooksby
French Riviera Alley
13 x 13 cm135 €Brooksby
Glorious Seine
36 x 36 cm565 €Brooksby
Le Rosé est servit
13 x 13 cm135 €Brooksby
les pécheurs
120 x 120 cm2 600 €Brooksby
La terrasse du Beauharnais
36 x 36 cm565 €Brooksby
Les Toits de Paris
19 x 19 cm205 €- Sold
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Nous au Cafe
36 x 36 cm565 € Brooksby
Vue sur le Panthéon
19 x 19 cm205 €- Sold
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Venus au Jardin de Plantes
25 x 25 cm335 € Brooksby
Sous les Combles
19 x 19 cm205 €Brooksby
Mon Balcon Parisien
36 x 36 cm565 €Brooksby
Marianne
13 x 13 cm135 €Brooksby
Ma Mere et Moi au Jardin
25 x 25 cm335 €Brooksby
Ensemble dans le Jardin
25 x 25 cm335 €- Sold
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Parisian Rooftop
13 x 13 cm135 €