Brooksby
- France
- Painter
Brooksby demonstrated a facility for drawing at an early age. Accompanying her father for business trips, her family travelled constantly throughout the United States. From this itinerant childhood, the American artist developed a real appetite for travelling. At age eight, she was already studying drawing from models at the University of California at Los Angeles. Two years later, she was an apprentice for a Japanese ceramist in West Virginia. She then became interested in photography. Her photographs won her several scholarships, including a senatorial scholarship as well as the most prestigious award from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. At the school of Fine Arts, she discovered a passion for sculpture and earned her degree in 1987, just before leaving for Florence, Italy, where she settled for more than twenty years.
Her love affair with painting began in the Tuscan countryside, during scooter rides. Then she began travelling with her easel and canvas hung on the baggage rack. For ten years, she worked in the open air on the streets of Florence where the major U.S. media would come to meet her. She opened a studio and gallery in the historic centre of the Italian city to paint and organize exhibitions. In 2006, her wandering spirit woke up, and on visiting Paris for a weekend, she decided to settle there. The French capital inspired her first urban scenes, now a major focus of her work.
Brooksby considers herself a colourist and devotes part of her paintings to the ""blue hour"", the in-between part of the day that is neither day nor night. For her oil paintings, the artist uses her photographs as models. She boasts membership to the current American ""Contemporary Realism"". Deeply rooted in the reality of the moment, her works are intended to be evidence of an era.
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In the park
13 x 13 cm119 EURBrooksby
Orange bucket
13 x 13 cm119 EURBrooksby
Café Paris
50 x 50 cm899 EURBrooksby
Couple en terrasse
13 x 13 cm119 EURBrooksby
So divine
13 x 13 cm119 EURBrooksby
Taxi Madison Suqare Garden
25 x 25 cm299 EURBrooksby
Le pêcheur
25 x 25 cm299 EURBrooksby
Three
19 x 19 cm199 EURBrooksby
La pyramide
25 x 25 cm299 EURBrooksby
Au comptoir
13 x 13 cm119 EURBrooksby
La dame blanche
25 x 25 cm299 EURBrooksby
Red bucket
13 x 13 cm119 EURBrooksby
Cruise right
50 x 50 cm899 EURBrooksby
Ice cream
19 x 19 cm199 EURBrooksby
Ensemble dans le jardin
25 x 25 cm299 EURBrooksby
Three graces
13 x 13 cm119 EURBrooksby
Chérie
36 x 36 cm499 EURBrooksby
Lion in the park
36 x 36 cm499 EURBrooksby
Deux gars et une reine
36 x 36 cm499 EURBrooksby
Sand man
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Le sacré coeur
36 x 36 cm499 EURBrooksby
Yellow boat
36 x 36 cm499 EURBrooksby
Groene reflecties
80 x 80 cm1.999 EURBrooksby
Cruise left
50 x 50 cm899 EURBrooksby
Sole in piazza
25 x 25 cm299 EURBrooksby
Alpha
25 x 25 cm299 EURBrooksby
Bac au soleil
19 x 19 cm199 EURBrooksby
Dans le bac
19 x 19 cm199 EURBrooksby
La carte des vins
13 x 13 cm119 EURBrooksby
Ferrari in Toscana
36 x 36 cm499 EURBrooksby
Neige de ville
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Angels
13 x 13 cm119 EURBrooksby
Bucket
13 x 13 cm119 EURBrooksby
Lancia appia
25 x 25 cm299 EURBrooksby
Brother and sister
19 x 19 cm199 EURBrooksby
Havana joy ride
25 x 25 cm299 EURBrooksby
Le café
13 x 13 cm119 EURBrooksby
Havana taxi classic
19 x 19 cm199 EURBrooksby
Sans titre
50 x 50 cm899 EURBrooksby
At the park
13 x 13 cm119 EURBrooksby
King Charles
36 x 36 cm499 EURBrooksby
Avenue de Gobelins
19 x 19 cm199 EURBrooksby
Amour
13 x 13 cm119 EURBrooksby
Beach games
13 x 13 cm119 EURBrooksby
500 gold
13 x 13 cm119 EURBrooksby
Solo
13 x 13 cm119 EURBrooksby
L'apéro arrive
13 x 13 cm119 EURBrooksby
Bato bus
25 x 25 cm299 EURBrooksby
Deux chevaux
19 x 19 cm199 EURBrooksby
Pirates
13 x 13 cm119 EURBrooksby
Cadillac al café
25 x 25 cm299 EURBrooksby
Spring love
19 x 19 cm199 EURBrooksby
Red dress
36 x 36 cm499 EURBrooksby
Seine et Eiffel tower
19 x 19 cm199 EURBrooksby
Apollo
19 x 19 cm199 EURBrooksby
Beach fun
19 x 19 cm199 EURBrooksby
Deux chevaux
19 x 19 cm199 EURBrooksby
Enkis boat
80 x 80 cm1.999 EURBrooksby
Hand in hand
13 x 13 cm119 EURBrooksby
Matin à Notre Dame
19 x 19 cm199 EUR