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
Brooksby
Havana Taxi
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Brooksby
French Riviera Alley
13 x 13 cmHKD 1,600Brooksby
Ready for Lunch
25 x 25 cmHKD 4,600Brooksby
Le Pont Neuf au Soleil
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Brooksby
Haussmann Facade
13 x 13 cmHKD 1,600Brooksby
Ruelle Bormes les Mimosas
100 x 100 cmHKD 52,800Brooksby
Parisian Cafe Dream
19 x 19 cmHKD 2,400Brooksby
Looking Up
100 x 100 cmHKD 52,800Brooksby
Jean d'Arc
13 x 13 cmHKD 1,600Brooksby
Fenêtre Ouverte - open window
13 x 13 cmHKD 1,600Brooksby
Le Néons de Paris
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Brooksby
Cafe de Flore
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Brooksby
L'Apéro est Servi
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Brooksby
Apollo
19 x 19 cmHKD 2,400Brooksby
Glycine
19 x 19 cmHKD 2,400Brooksby
Seine Cruise
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Brooksby
Glorious Seine
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Brooksby
Parisian Window: Flower Power
25 x 25 cmHKD 4,600Brooksby
Cafe de Flore
50 x 50 cmHKD 15,400Brooksby
Parisian Balcony - Chez Moi
25 x 25 cmHKD 4,600Brooksby
Mercedes
13 x 13 cmHKD 1,600Brooksby
Nous au Cafe
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100- Sold
Brooksby
Notre Table
13 x 13 cmHKD 1,600 Brooksby
Café Paris
50 x 50 cmHKD 15,400Brooksby
Tabac Monge
19 x 19 cmHKD 2,400Brooksby
Rue Saint André des Arts
19 x 19 cmHKD 2,400Brooksby
Ruelle de Provence
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Brooksby
Ferrari in Toscana
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Brooksby
Urban Garden : Parisian Façade
25 x 25 cmHKD 4,600Brooksby
La Carte des Vins
13 x 13 cmHKD 1,600Brooksby
Le Bistrot de l'Amour
19 x 19 cmHKD 2,400Brooksby
Deux Chevaux Orange
19 x 19 cmHKD 2,400Brooksby
Rendez-vous au Café
19 x 19 cmHKD 2,400Brooksby
Havana Blue
19 x 19 cmHKD 2,400Brooksby
Flowery Window
19 x 19 cmHKD 2,400Brooksby
500 Gold
25 x 25 cmHKD 4,600Brooksby
Marianne
13 x 13 cmHKD 1,600Brooksby
Tanker
120 x 40 cmHKD 26,400Brooksby
Chez Manon
19 x 19 cmHKD 2,400Brooksby
Coin Fleurit
25 x 25 cmHKD 4,600Brooksby
Classic in Piazza
25 x 25 cmHKD 4,600Brooksby
Windowbox Geraniums
19 x 19 cmHKD 2,400Brooksby
Huitres Servis
13 x 13 cmHKD 1,600Brooksby
French Riviera Window
13 x 13 cmHKD 1,600Brooksby
Un Clin d'œil sur Sacre Cœur
19 x 19 cmHKD 2,400Brooksby
Cafe Saint Jacques
25 x 25 cmHKD 4,600Brooksby
l'Apéro Arrive
13 x 13 cmHKD 1,600Brooksby
Le Judge
13 x 13 cmHKD 1,600Brooksby
Cafe Parisien
25 x 25 cmHKD 4,600Brooksby
Chez Mon Amour
13 x 13 cmHKD 1,600Brooksby
King Charles
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Brooksby
Chez Flora
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Brooksby
Promenade au Jardin de Luxembourg
25 x 25 cmHKD 4,600Brooksby
Mini Rover
25 x 25 cmHKD 4,600Brooksby
Yellow Boat
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Brooksby
Balcon de Paris
13 x 13 cmHKD 1,600Brooksby
Le Faune au Jardin du Luxembourg
25 x 25 cmHKD 4,600Brooksby
Le chateau
13 x 13 cmHKD 1,600Brooksby
Ruelle de Grimaud
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Brooksby
Au café.
19 x 19 cmHKD 2,400