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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Brooksby
Cafe de Flore
50 x 50 cm1,979 CADBrooksby
Corner Balcony
13 x 13 cm239 CADBrooksby
Au marché Mouffetard
100 x 100 cm5,799 CADBrooksby
Balcony Geraniums
13 x 13 cm239 CADBrooksby
Times Square light
50 x 50 cm1,979 CADBrooksby
Charlie's Cab
50 x 50 cm1,979 CADBrooksby
Corvette Party
80 x 80 cm3,839 CADBrooksby
Le chateau
13 x 13 cm239 CADBrooksby
Aux Tuilleries
36 x 36 cm999 CADBrooksby
Ruelle Bormes les Mimosas
100 x 100 cm5,799 CADBrooksby
Le Pont Neuf au Soleil
36 x 36 cm999 CADBrooksby
Flowery Window
19 x 19 cm359 CADBrooksby
les pécheurs
120 x 120 cm7,699 CADBrooksby
Vielle Porte Fleurie
13 x 13 cm239 CADBrooksby
Parisian Window: Flower Power
25 x 25 cm589 CADBrooksby
Paris Chiminies
19 x 19 cm359 CADBrooksby
Seine Cruise
36 x 36 cm999 CADBrooksby
Chez Flora
36 x 36 cm999 CADBrooksby
L'Apéro est Servi
36 x 36 cm999 CADBrooksby
Brasserie
36 x 36 cm999 CADBrooksby
Le Moulin Rouge
19 x 19 cm359 CADBrooksby
Ferrari in Toscana
36 x 36 cm999 CADBrooksby
La Carte des Vins
13 x 13 cm239 CADBrooksby
Havana Blue
19 x 19 cm359 CADBrooksby
Rue Monge
13 x 13 cm239 CADBrooksby
Huitres Servis
13 x 13 cm239 CADBrooksby
Un Clin d'œil sur Sacre Cœur
19 x 19 cm359 CADBrooksby
Chez Mon Amour
13 x 13 cm239 CADBrooksby
Flowery balcony: Chez Sylvie
25 x 25 cm589 CADBrooksby
Tabac Monge
19 x 19 cm359 CADBrooksby
Fleurs Rouges sur le Balcon Parisien
19 x 19 cm359 CADBrooksby
Urban Garden : Parisian Façade
25 x 25 cm589 CADBrooksby
Glycine sur la veille porte en Provence
13 x 13 cm239 CADBrooksby
Parisian Balcony - Chez Moi
25 x 25 cm589 CADBrooksby
Windowbox Geraniums
19 x 19 cm359 CADBrooksby
La Nuit à la Brasserie l'Européen
36 x 36 cm999 CADBrooksby
Café Paris
50 x 50 cm1,979 CADBrooksby
Le Faune au Jardin du Luxembourg
25 x 25 cm589 CADBrooksby
Deux Gars et Une Reine.
36 x 36 cm999 CADBrooksby
Marianne
13 x 13 cm239 CADBrooksby
Porte Fleurie
13 x 13 cm239 CADBrooksby
Parisian Cafe Dream
19 x 19 cm359 CADBrooksby
Bougainvillier
19 x 19 cm359 CADBrooksby
Reflections and Souvenirs
36 x 36 cm999 CAD- Sold
Brooksby
La Tour Eiffel et les Quais
36 x 36 cm999 CAD Brooksby
La Seine Mon Amour
36 x 36 cm999 CADBrooksby
Notre Dame et Toits de Paris
19 x 19 cm359 CADBrooksby
Parisian Window
13 x 13 cm239 CADBrooksby
Cafe le Bullier
100 x 100 cm5,799 CADBrooksby
Fenêtre Ouverte - open window
13 x 13 cm239 CADBrooksby
Le Moulin Rouge
13 x 13 cm239 CADBrooksby
Le Bistrot de l'Amour
19 x 19 cm359 CAD- Sold
Brooksby
Au café.
19 x 19 cm359 CAD Brooksby
L'Apéro est Servi
19 x 19 cm359 CADBrooksby
Looking Up
100 x 100 cm5,799 CADBrooksby
Fiat 500
13 x 13 cm239 CADBrooksby
Haussmann Facade
13 x 13 cm239 CADBrooksby
Chez Maman
80 x 80 cm3,839 CADBrooksby
Tanker
120 x 40 cm2,899 CADBrooksby
Le Sacré Coeur
36 x 36 cm999 CAD