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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(125 Artworks)
125 Artworks
Brooksby
Cafe de Flore
50 x 50 cm1.150 €Brooksby
Corner Balcony
13 x 13 cm110 €Brooksby
Au marché Mouffetard
100 x 100 cm3.050 €Brooksby
Balcony Geraniums
13 x 13 cm110 €Brooksby
Times Square light
50 x 50 cm1.150 €Brooksby
Charlie's Cab
50 x 50 cm1.150 €Brooksby
Corvette Party
80 x 80 cm2.100 €Brooksby
Cafe de Flore
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Toits de Paris
25 x 25 cm280 €Brooksby
La Seine Mon Amour
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
French Riviera Village
80 x 80 cm2.100 €Brooksby
Yellow Boat
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
les pécheurs
120 x 120 cm4.250 €Brooksby
Brasserie
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Café Paris
50 x 50 cm1.150 €Brooksby
Haussmann Facade
13 x 13 cm110 €Brooksby
Balcon Fleuri
25 x 25 cm280 €Brooksby
Parisian yorkie
13 x 13 cm110 €Brooksby
Ma Mere et Moi au Jardin
25 x 25 cm280 €Brooksby
Urban Garden : Parisian Façade
25 x 25 cm280 €Brooksby
Le Moulin Rouge
19 x 19 cm180 €Brooksby
l'Apéro Arrive
13 x 13 cm110 €Brooksby
Les Deux Magots
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
L'Apéro est Servi
19 x 19 cm180 €Brooksby
French Riviera Alley
13 x 13 cm110 €Brooksby
Cafe Saint Jacques
25 x 25 cm280 €Brooksby
Le Pont Neuf au Soleil
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Jean d'Arc
13 x 13 cm110 €Brooksby
Parisian Cafe Dream
19 x 19 cm180 €Brooksby
Marianne
13 x 13 cm110 €Brooksby
Un Clin d'œil sur Sacre Cœur
19 x 19 cm180 €Brooksby
Balcon au soleil
19 x 19 cm180 €Brooksby
Les Balcons
25 x 25 cm280 €Brooksby
Le Judge
13 x 13 cm110 €Brooksby
Chaises
13 x 13 cm110 €Brooksby
Spring Love
19 x 19 cm180 €Brooksby
Paris Chiminies
19 x 19 cm180 €Brooksby
Classic in Piazza
25 x 25 cm280 €Brooksby
Tanker
120 x 40 cm1.650 €- Sold
Brooksby
Bistrot Monge
25 x 25 cm280 € Brooksby
King Charles
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
La Nuit à la Brasserie l'Européen
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Cafe le Bullier
100 x 100 cm3.050 €Brooksby
Fleurs Rouges sur le Balcon Parisien
19 x 19 cm180 €Brooksby
Ready for Lunch
25 x 25 cm280 €Brooksby
le pécheur, Marseille
120 x 120 cm4.250 €Brooksby
Le Faune au Jardin du Luxembourg
25 x 25 cm280 €Brooksby
Looking Up
100 x 100 cm3.050 €- Sold
Brooksby
Notre Table
13 x 13 cm110 € Brooksby
Rue Monge
13 x 13 cm110 €Brooksby
Havana Blue
19 x 19 cm180 €Brooksby
Fiat 500
13 x 13 cm110 €Brooksby
Deux Gars et Une Reine.
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Sacre Cœur Blue Hour
19 x 19 cm180 €Brooksby
Chez Manon
19 x 19 cm180 €Brooksby
Windowbox Geraniums
19 x 19 cm180 €Brooksby
Glycine
13 x 13 cm110 €Brooksby
Rue Saint André des Arts
19 x 19 cm180 €Brooksby
Lovers on the Bridge
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Glycine sur la veille porte en Provence
13 x 13 cm110 €