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 Parisien
25 x 25 cm589 CADBrooksby
Haussmann Facade
13 x 13 cm239 CADBrooksby
Toits Parisiens
36 x 36 cm999 CADBrooksby
Lovers on the Bridge
36 x 36 cm999 CADBrooksby
Parisian Balcony - Chez Moi
25 x 25 cm589 CADBrooksby
La Tour Eiffel, rue de Monttessuy
80 x 80 cm3,839 CADBrooksby
Le Sacré Coeur
36 x 36 cm999 CADBrooksby
Le Pont Neuf au Soleil
36 x 36 cm999 CADBrooksby
Aux Tuilleries
36 x 36 cm999 CADBrooksby
Tanker
120 x 40 cm2,899 CADBrooksby
Balcon de Paris
13 x 13 cm239 CADBrooksby
Le Néons de Paris
36 x 36 cm999 CADBrooksby
les pécheurs
120 x 120 cm7,699 CADBrooksby
Marianne
13 x 13 cm239 CAD- Sold
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La Tour Eiffel et les Quais
36 x 36 cm999 CAD Brooksby
French Riviera Window
13 x 13 cm239 CADBrooksby
Deux Chevaux Orange
19 x 19 cm359 CADBrooksby
La Carte des Vins
13 x 13 cm239 CADBrooksby
Havana Blue
19 x 19 cm359 CAD- Sold
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Bistrot Monge
25 x 25 cm589 CAD Brooksby
Glycine sur la veille porte en Provence
13 x 13 cm239 CADBrooksby
Parisian Rooftop
13 x 13 cm239 CADBrooksby
Sacre Cœur Blue Hour
19 x 19 cm359 CADBrooksby
King Charles
36 x 36 cm999 CADBrooksby
Chez Céline
25 x 25 cm589 CADBrooksby
Spring Love
19 x 19 cm359 CADBrooksby
Le Moulin Rouge
19 x 19 cm359 CADBrooksby
Parisian Window
13 x 13 cm239 CADBrooksby
Mini Rover
25 x 25 cm589 CADBrooksby
Fleurs Rouges sur le Balcon Parisien
19 x 19 cm359 CADBrooksby
Balcon Fleuri
25 x 25 cm589 CADBrooksby
Cafe le Bullier
100 x 100 cm5,799 CADBrooksby
Bougainvillier
19 x 19 cm359 CADBrooksby
Glycine
13 x 13 cm239 CADBrooksby
Balcon au soleil
19 x 19 cm359 CADBrooksby
Cafe de Flore
36 x 36 cm999 CADBrooksby
Le Judge
13 x 13 cm239 CADBrooksby
Rue Monge
13 x 13 cm239 CADBrooksby
Flowery balcony: Chez Sylvie
25 x 25 cm589 CADBrooksby
Seine Cruise
36 x 36 cm999 CADBrooksby
French Riviera Village
80 x 80 cm3,839 CADBrooksby
La terrasse du Beauharnais
36 x 36 cm999 CADBrooksby
Ruelle de Grimaud
36 x 36 cm999 CADBrooksby
Ensemble dans le Jardin
25 x 25 cm589 CADBrooksby
Coin Fleurit
25 x 25 cm589 CADBrooksby
Brasserie
36 x 36 cm999 CAD- Sold
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Rue Saint André des Arts
19 x 19 cm359 CAD Brooksby
Tabac Monge
19 x 19 cm359 CADBrooksby
La Nuit à la Brasserie l'Européen
36 x 36 cm999 CADBrooksby
Ruelle Bormes les Mimosas
100 x 100 cm5,799 CADBrooksby
Chez Flora
36 x 36 cm999 CADBrooksby
Geraniums
25 x 25 cm589 CADBrooksby
Nous au Cafe
36 x 36 cm999 CADBrooksby
Chez Manon
19 x 19 cm359 CADBrooksby
Le Bistrot de l'Amour
19 x 19 cm359 CADBrooksby
Chez Maman
80 x 80 cm3,839 CADBrooksby
Parisian yorkie
13 x 13 cm239 CADBrooksby
Le Cafe
13 x 13 cm239 CADBrooksby
Urban Garden : Parisian Façade
25 x 25 cm589 CADBrooksby
Le Faune au Jardin du Luxembourg
25 x 25 cm589 CAD