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 cm880 €Brooksby
Corner Balcony
13 x 13 cm109 €Brooksby
Au marché Mouffetard
100 x 100 cm2 900 €Brooksby
Balcony Geraniums
13 x 13 cm109 €Brooksby
Times Square light
50 x 50 cm880 €Brooksby
Charlie's Cab
50 x 50 cm880 €Brooksby
Corvette Party
80 x 80 cm1 900 €Brooksby
Vielle Porte Fleurie
13 x 13 cm109 €Brooksby
l'Apéro Arrive
13 x 13 cm109 €Brooksby
Ruelle de Provence
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
le pécheur, Marseille
120 x 120 cm3 800 €Brooksby
Balcon Fleuri
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
Le Judge
13 x 13 cm109 €Brooksby
Chez Manon
19 x 19 cm170 €Brooksby
Cafe Saint Jacques
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
Rendez-vous au Café
19 x 19 cm170 €Brooksby
Cafe de Flore
50 x 50 cm880 €Brooksby
Rue Monge
13 x 13 cm109 €Brooksby
King Charles
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Café Pause
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Brasserie L'Européen
100 x 100 cm2 900 €Brooksby
Notre Dame et Toits de Paris
19 x 19 cm170 €Brooksby
Le Sacré Coeur
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Bougainvillier
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
Toits Parisiens
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Le Moulin Rouge
19 x 19 cm170 €Brooksby
Mini Rover
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
Reflections and Souvenirs
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Fiat 500
13 x 13 cm109 €Brooksby
Brasserie
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Nous au Cafe
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Windowbox Geraniums
19 x 19 cm170 €Brooksby
Porte Fleurie
13 x 13 cm109 €Brooksby
Bougainvillier
19 x 19 cm170 €- Sold
Brooksby
Au café.
19 x 19 cm170 € Brooksby
Ready for Lunch
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
Batobus
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
Cafe Parisien
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
Coin Fleurit
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
La Nuit à la Brasserie l'Européen
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Le Bistrot de l'Amour
19 x 19 cm170 €Brooksby
L'Apéro est Servi
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Flowery balcony: Chez Sylvie
25 x 25 cm285 €- Sold
Brooksby
Notre Table
13 x 13 cm109 € Brooksby
Glycine
13 x 13 cm109 €Brooksby
Ma Mere et Moi au Jardin
25 x 25 cm285 €- Sold
Brooksby
La Tour Eiffel et les Quais
36 x 36 cm480 € Brooksby
Deux Chevaux Orange
19 x 19 cm170 €Brooksby
Jean d'Arc
13 x 13 cm109 €Brooksby
Glorious Seine
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
Un Clin d'œil sur Sacre Cœur
19 x 19 cm170 €Brooksby
Chez Céline
25 x 25 cm285 €Brooksby
Marianne
13 x 13 cm109 €Brooksby
Chez Maman
80 x 80 cm1 900 €Brooksby
Havana Blue
19 x 19 cm170 €Brooksby
La terrasse du Beauharnais
36 x 36 cm480 €Brooksby
La Carte des Vins
13 x 13 cm109 €Brooksby
Le chateau
13 x 13 cm109 €Brooksby
French Riviera Village
80 x 80 cm1 900 €Brooksby
Ruelle Bormes les Mimosas
100 x 100 cm2 900 €