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 cmHKD 15,400Brooksby
Corner Balcony
13 x 13 cmHKD 1,600Brooksby
Au marché Mouffetard
100 x 100 cmHKD 52,800Brooksby
Balcony Geraniums
13 x 13 cmHKD 1,600Brooksby
Times Square light
50 x 50 cmHKD 15,400Brooksby
Charlie's Cab
50 x 50 cmHKD 15,400Brooksby
Corvette Party
80 x 80 cmHKD 31,900Brooksby
Le chateau
13 x 13 cmHKD 1,600Brooksby
Aux Tuilleries
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Brooksby
Ruelle Bormes les Mimosas
100 x 100 cmHKD 52,800Brooksby
Le Pont Neuf au Soleil
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Brooksby
Flowery Window
19 x 19 cmHKD 2,400Brooksby
les pécheurs
120 x 120 cmHKD 68,200Brooksby
Vielle Porte Fleurie
13 x 13 cmHKD 1,600Brooksby
Parisian Window: Flower Power
25 x 25 cmHKD 4,600Brooksby
Paris Chiminies
19 x 19 cmHKD 2,400Brooksby
Seine Cruise
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Brooksby
Chez Flora
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Brooksby
L'Apéro est Servi
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Brooksby
Brasserie
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Brooksby
Le Moulin Rouge
19 x 19 cmHKD 2,400Brooksby
Ferrari in Toscana
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Brooksby
La Carte des Vins
13 x 13 cmHKD 1,600Brooksby
Havana Blue
19 x 19 cmHKD 2,400Brooksby
Rue Monge
13 x 13 cmHKD 1,600Brooksby
Huitres Servis
13 x 13 cmHKD 1,600Brooksby
Un Clin d'œil sur Sacre Cœur
19 x 19 cmHKD 2,400Brooksby
Chez Mon Amour
13 x 13 cmHKD 1,600Brooksby
Flowery balcony: Chez Sylvie
25 x 25 cmHKD 4,600Brooksby
Tabac Monge
19 x 19 cmHKD 2,400Brooksby
Fleurs Rouges sur le Balcon Parisien
19 x 19 cmHKD 2,400Brooksby
Urban Garden : Parisian Façade
25 x 25 cmHKD 4,600Brooksby
Glycine sur la veille porte en Provence
13 x 13 cmHKD 1,600Brooksby
Parisian Balcony - Chez Moi
25 x 25 cmHKD 4,600Brooksby
Windowbox Geraniums
19 x 19 cmHKD 2,400Brooksby
La Nuit à la Brasserie l'Européen
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Brooksby
Café Paris
50 x 50 cmHKD 15,400Brooksby
Le Faune au Jardin du Luxembourg
25 x 25 cmHKD 4,600Brooksby
Deux Gars et Une Reine.
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Brooksby
Marianne
13 x 13 cmHKD 1,600Brooksby
Porte Fleurie
13 x 13 cmHKD 1,600Brooksby
Parisian Cafe Dream
19 x 19 cmHKD 2,400Brooksby
Bougainvillier
19 x 19 cmHKD 2,400Brooksby
Reflections and Souvenirs
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100- Sold
Brooksby
La Tour Eiffel et les Quais
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100 Brooksby
La Seine Mon Amour
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Brooksby
Notre Dame et Toits de Paris
19 x 19 cmHKD 2,400Brooksby
Parisian Window
13 x 13 cmHKD 1,600Brooksby
Cafe le Bullier
100 x 100 cmHKD 52,800Brooksby
Fenêtre Ouverte - open window
13 x 13 cmHKD 1,600Brooksby
Le Moulin Rouge
13 x 13 cmHKD 1,600Brooksby
Le Bistrot de l'Amour
19 x 19 cmHKD 2,400- Sold
Brooksby
Au café.
19 x 19 cmHKD 2,400 Brooksby
L'Apéro est Servi
19 x 19 cmHKD 2,400Brooksby
Looking Up
100 x 100 cmHKD 52,800Brooksby
Fiat 500
13 x 13 cmHKD 1,600Brooksby
Haussmann Facade
13 x 13 cmHKD 1,600Brooksby
Chez Maman
80 x 80 cmHKD 31,900Brooksby
Tanker
120 x 40 cmHKD 26,400Brooksby
Le Sacré Coeur
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100