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 de Flore
50 x 50 cm1.150 EURBrooksby
Corner Balcony
13 x 13 cm110 EURBrooksby
Au marché Mouffetard
100 x 100 cm3.050 EURBrooksby
Balcony Geraniums
13 x 13 cm110 EURBrooksby
Times Square light
50 x 50 cm1.150 EURBrooksby
Charlie's Cab
50 x 50 cm1.150 EURBrooksby
Corvette Party
80 x 80 cm2.100 EURBrooksby
L'heure de l'apéro
19 x 19 cm180 EURBrooksby
Fiat 500
13 x 13 cm110 EURBrooksby
Le Judge
13 x 13 cm110 EURBrooksby
Ruelle de Grimaud
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
Le Pyramide du Louvre
25 x 25 cm280 EURBrooksby
Bateaux aux Jardins du Luxembourg
25 x 25 cm280 EUR- Sold
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Les Quais
36 x 36 cm480 EUR - Sold
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La Nuit à la Brasserie l'Européen
36 x 36 cm480 EUR Brooksby
Le Bistrot de l'Amour
19 x 19 cm180 EURBrooksby
Au Bistrot
13 x 13 cm110 EURBrooksby
La Tour Eiffel
36 x 36 cm480 EUR- Sold
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Urban Garden : Parisian Façade
25 x 25 cm280 EUR Brooksby
Chez Mon Amour
13 x 13 cm110 EURBrooksby
Havana Blue
19 x 19 cm180 EURBrooksby
Havana Taxi
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
Les Deux Magots
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
Toits de Paris
25 x 25 cm280 EURBrooksby
Le Cafe
13 x 13 cm110 EURBrooksby
le pécheur, Marseille
120 x 120 cm4.250 EUR- Sold
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Mercedes
13 x 13 cm110 EUR Brooksby
Bistrot du Peintre - Paris
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
Ruelle de Provence
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
Je t'attends
13 x 13 cm110 EURBrooksby
Le Balcon des Roses
25 x 25 cm280 EURBrooksby
Hotel de Ville (Détail)
25 x 25 cm280 EURBrooksby
Mon Amour
13 x 13 cm110 EURBrooksby
Batobus
25 x 25 cm280 EURBrooksby
Tabac Monge
19 x 19 cm180 EURBrooksby
Le chateau
13 x 13 cm110 EURBrooksby
Les Quais du Seine
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
Brasserie L'Européen
100 x 100 cm3.050 EURBrooksby
Le Néons de Paris
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
I remember Notre Dame
19 x 19 cm180 EURBrooksby
Fenêtre Ouverte - open window
13 x 13 cm110 EURBrooksby
Fenêtre aux fleurs
13 x 13 cm110 EURBrooksby
Cafe le Bullier
100 x 100 cm3.050 EURBrooksby
Vers la place Vendôme
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
Ferrari in Toscana
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
Le Pont des Arts
25 x 25 cm280 EURBrooksby
Lovers on the Bridge
36 x 36 cm480 EUR- Sold
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Porte Fleurie
13 x 13 cm110 EUR Brooksby
Le Pont Neuf
13 x 13 cm110 EURBrooksby
Le Sacré Coeur
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
Rendez-vous au Café
19 x 19 cm180 EURBrooksby
Le Faune au Jardin du Luxembourg
25 x 25 cm280 EURBrooksby
Le Pont Neuf au Soleil
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
La Seine Mon Amour
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
En route pour le Sacré Cœur
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
French Riviera Village
80 x 80 cm2.100 EURBrooksby
Seine Cruise
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
Notre Dame et Toits de Paris
19 x 19 cm180 EURBrooksby
Cafe Georges V
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
Bougainvillier
19 x 19 cm180 EUR