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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(107 Artworks)
107 Artworks
Brooksby
Cafe de Flore
50 x 50 cmUSD 1,450Brooksby
Au marché Mouffetard
100 x 100 cmUSD 4,900Brooksby
Times Square light
50 x 50 cmUSD 1,450Brooksby
Charlie's Cab
50 x 50 cmUSD 1,450Brooksby
Corvette Party
80 x 80 cmUSD 3,200Brooksby
Fenêtre aux fleurs
13 x 13 cmUSD 175Brooksby
Chez Manon
19 x 19 cmUSD 275Brooksby
Bougainvillier
19 x 19 cmUSD 275Brooksby
Les Quais du Seine
36 x 36 cmUSD 730- Sold
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Le rouge
13 x 13 cmUSD 175 - Sold
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Le Pont Neuf
13 x 13 cmUSD 175 Brooksby
L'Apéro est Servi
19 x 19 cmUSD 275Brooksby
Cafe le Bullier
100 x 100 cmUSD 4,900- Sold
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Venus au Jardin de Plantes
25 x 25 cmUSD 450 Brooksby
Cafe Parisien
25 x 25 cmUSD 450Brooksby
The parisian garrett
13 x 13 cmUSD 175Brooksby
Rendez-vous au café
19 x 19 cmUSD 275Brooksby
Bateaux aux Jardins du Luxembourg
25 x 25 cmUSD 450Brooksby
Les Balcons
25 x 25 cmUSD 450- Sold
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Flowery balcony: Chez Sylvie
25 x 25 cmUSD 450 Brooksby
I remember Notre Dame
19 x 19 cmUSD 275Brooksby
Le Pont Neuf au Soleil
36 x 36 cmUSD 730Brooksby
Au Bistrot
13 x 13 cmUSD 175Brooksby
Café Paris
50 x 50 cmUSD 1,450Brooksby
Notre Dame et Toits de Paris
19 x 19 cmUSD 275Brooksby
Balcon Fleuri
25 x 25 cmUSD 450Brooksby
Le Pyramide du Louvre
25 x 25 cmUSD 450Brooksby
les pécheurs
120 x 120 cmUSD 6,800Brooksby
Chez moi - Parisian balcony
25 x 25 cmUSD 450- Sold
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Toits Parisiens
36 x 36 cmUSD 730 Brooksby
Lovers on the Bridge
36 x 36 cmUSD 730Brooksby
Brasserie
36 x 36 cmUSD 730Brooksby
Bistrot du Peintre - Paris
36 x 36 cmUSD 730Brooksby
Le Balcon des Roses
25 x 25 cmUSD 450Brooksby
La Tour Eiffel
36 x 36 cmUSD 730Brooksby
King Charles
36 x 36 cmUSD 730- Sold
Brooksby
Parisian yorkie
13 x 13 cmUSD 175 - Sold
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Geraniums
25 x 25 cmUSD 450 Brooksby
Deux Chevaux Orange
19 x 19 cmUSD 275Brooksby
Café Pause
36 x 36 cmUSD 730Brooksby
Spring Love
19 x 19 cmUSD 275Brooksby
La Seine Mon Amour
19 x 19 cmUSD 275Brooksby
Vue sur le Panthéon
19 x 19 cmUSD 275Brooksby
La Seine Mon Amour
36 x 36 cmUSD 730Brooksby
French Riviera Village
80 x 80 cmUSD 3,200Brooksby
Yellow Boat
36 x 36 cmUSD 730Brooksby
Promenade au Jardin de Luxembourg
25 x 25 cmUSD 450Brooksby
L'heure de l'apéro
19 x 19 cmUSD 275- Sold
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Porte Fleurie
13 x 13 cmUSD 175 Brooksby
Ruelle Bormes les Mimosas
100 x 100 cmUSD 4,900Brooksby
Parisian Window: Flower Power
25 x 25 cmUSD 450Brooksby
Sous les Combles
19 x 19 cmUSD 275- Sold
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Toits de Paris
25 x 25 cmUSD 450 Brooksby
Hotel de Ville (Quais)
25 x 25 cmUSD 450Brooksby
Balcon au soleil
19 x 19 cmUSD 275Brooksby
Je t'attends
13 x 13 cmUSD 175Brooksby
Tanker
120 x 40 cmUSD 2,250Brooksby
L'Apéro est Servi
36 x 36 cmUSD 730Brooksby
Les Quais au Soleil
19 x 19 cmUSD 275Brooksby
Mon Balcon Parisien
36 x 36 cmUSD 730