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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120 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
L'heure de l'apéro
19 x 19 cmHKD 2,400Brooksby
Fiat 500
13 x 13 cmHKD 1,600Brooksby
Le Judge
13 x 13 cmHKD 1,600Brooksby
Ruelle de Grimaud
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Brooksby
Le Pyramide du Louvre
25 x 25 cmHKD 4,600Brooksby
Bateaux aux Jardins du Luxembourg
25 x 25 cmHKD 4,600- Sold
Brooksby
Les Quais
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100 - Sold
Brooksby
La Nuit à la Brasserie l'Européen
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100 Brooksby
Le Bistrot de l'Amour
19 x 19 cmHKD 2,400Brooksby
Au Bistrot
13 x 13 cmHKD 1,600Brooksby
La Tour Eiffel
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100- Sold
Brooksby
Urban Garden : Parisian Façade
25 x 25 cmHKD 4,600 Brooksby
Chez Mon Amour
13 x 13 cmHKD 1,600Brooksby
Havana Blue
19 x 19 cmHKD 2,400Brooksby
Havana Taxi
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Brooksby
Les Deux Magots
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Brooksby
Toits de Paris
25 x 25 cmHKD 4,600Brooksby
Le Cafe
13 x 13 cmHKD 1,600Brooksby
le pécheur, Marseille
120 x 120 cmHKD 68,200- Sold
Brooksby
Mercedes
13 x 13 cmHKD 1,600 Brooksby
Bistrot du Peintre - Paris
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Brooksby
Ruelle de Provence
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Brooksby
Je t'attends
13 x 13 cmHKD 1,600Brooksby
Le Balcon des Roses
25 x 25 cmHKD 4,600Brooksby
Hotel de Ville (Détail)
25 x 25 cmHKD 4,600Brooksby
Mon Amour
13 x 13 cmHKD 1,600Brooksby
Batobus
25 x 25 cmHKD 4,600Brooksby
Tabac Monge
19 x 19 cmHKD 2,400Brooksby
Le chateau
13 x 13 cmHKD 1,600Brooksby
Les Quais du Seine
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Brooksby
Brasserie L'Européen
100 x 100 cmHKD 52,800Brooksby
Le Néons de Paris
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Brooksby
I remember Notre Dame
19 x 19 cmHKD 2,400Brooksby
Fenêtre Ouverte - open window
13 x 13 cmHKD 1,600Brooksby
Fenêtre aux fleurs
13 x 13 cmHKD 1,600Brooksby
Cafe le Bullier
100 x 100 cmHKD 52,800Brooksby
Vers la place Vendôme
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Brooksby
Ferrari in Toscana
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Brooksby
Le Pont des Arts
25 x 25 cmHKD 4,600Brooksby
Lovers on the Bridge
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100- Sold
Brooksby
Porte Fleurie
13 x 13 cmHKD 1,600 Brooksby
Le Pont Neuf
13 x 13 cmHKD 1,600Brooksby
Le Sacré Coeur
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Brooksby
Rendez-vous au Café
19 x 19 cmHKD 2,400Brooksby
Le Faune au Jardin du Luxembourg
25 x 25 cmHKD 4,600Brooksby
Le Pont Neuf au Soleil
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Brooksby
La Seine Mon Amour
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Brooksby
En route pour le Sacré Cœur
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Brooksby
French Riviera Village
80 x 80 cmHKD 31,900Brooksby
Seine Cruise
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Brooksby
Notre Dame et Toits de Paris
19 x 19 cmHKD 2,400Brooksby
Cafe Georges V
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Brooksby
Bougainvillier
19 x 19 cmHKD 2,400