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
Bougainvillier
25 x 25 cm280 €Brooksby
Aux Tuilleries
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Deux Chevaux Orange
19 x 19 cm180 €Brooksby
Cafe Parisien
25 x 25 cm280 €- Sold
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Au café.
19 x 19 cm180 € Brooksby
Bougainvillier
19 x 19 cm180 €Brooksby
Brasserie L'Européen
100 x 100 cm3.050 €Brooksby
Les Deux Magots
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Chez Céline
25 x 25 cm280 €Brooksby
Cafe Saint Jacques
25 x 25 cm280 €Brooksby
Balcon au soleil
19 x 19 cm180 €Brooksby
Balcon Fleuri
25 x 25 cm280 €Brooksby
Tanker
120 x 40 cm1.650 €Brooksby
Balcon de Paris
13 x 13 cm110 €Brooksby
Seine Cruise
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
La Nuit à la Brasserie l'Européen
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Reflections and Souvenirs
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Mon Amour
13 x 13 cm110 €Brooksby
Notre Dame et Toits de Paris
19 x 19 cm180 €Brooksby
Mini Rover
25 x 25 cm280 €Brooksby
Terrasse Parisienne
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
King Charles
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
La Tour Eiffel, rue de Monttessuy
80 x 80 cm2.100 €Brooksby
Parisian yorkie
13 x 13 cm110 €Brooksby
Ruelle de Grimaud
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Le Bistrot de l'Amour
19 x 19 cm180 €Brooksby
Chez Manon
19 x 19 cm180 €Brooksby
L'Apéro est Servi
19 x 19 cm180 €Brooksby
Le chateau
13 x 13 cm110 €- Sold
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Bistrot Monge
25 x 25 cm280 € Brooksby
Cafe de Flore
50 x 50 cm1.150 €Brooksby
Café Paris
50 x 50 cm1.150 €Brooksby
L'Apéro est Servi
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Batobus
25 x 25 cm280 €- Sold
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Notre Table
13 x 13 cm110 € Brooksby
Porte Fleurie
13 x 13 cm110 €Brooksby
Chaises
13 x 13 cm110 €Brooksby
Glycine
13 x 13 cm110 €Brooksby
Glorious Seine
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Brasserie
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Parisian Rooftop
13 x 13 cm110 €Brooksby
Lovers on the Bridge
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Le Sacré Coeur
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Coin Fleurit
25 x 25 cm280 €Brooksby
Fiat 500
13 x 13 cm110 €Brooksby
Paris Chiminies
19 x 19 cm180 €Brooksby
Cafe de Flore
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Parisian Window
13 x 13 cm110 €Brooksby
Looking Up
100 x 100 cm3.050 €Brooksby
French Riviera Window
13 x 13 cm110 €Brooksby
Parisian Cafe Dream
19 x 19 cm180 €Brooksby
Huitres Servis
13 x 13 cm110 €Brooksby
Le Faune au Jardin du Luxembourg
25 x 25 cm280 €Brooksby
Un Clin d'œil sur Sacre Cœur
19 x 19 cm180 €Brooksby
Rendez-vous au Café
19 x 19 cm180 €Brooksby
Toits Parisiens
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Parisian Balcony - Chez Moi
25 x 25 cm280 €Brooksby
Ensemble dans le Jardin
25 x 25 cm280 €Brooksby
Geraniums
25 x 25 cm280 €Brooksby
Bateaux aux Jardins du Luxembourg
25 x 25 cm280 €