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 cm1.150 EURBrooksby
Corner Balcony
13 x 13 cm110 EURBrooksby
Au marché Mouffetard
100 x 100 cm3.050 EURBrooksby
Balcony Geraniums
13 x 13 cm110 EURBrooksby
Times Square light
50 x 50 cm1.150 EURBrooksby
Charlie's Cab
50 x 50 cm1.150 EURBrooksby
Corvette Party
80 x 80 cm2.100 EURBrooksby
Le chateau
13 x 13 cm110 EURBrooksby
Aux Tuilleries
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
Ruelle Bormes les Mimosas
100 x 100 cm3.050 EURBrooksby
Le Pont Neuf au Soleil
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
Flowery Window
19 x 19 cm180 EURBrooksby
les pécheurs
120 x 120 cm4.250 EURBrooksby
Vielle Porte Fleurie
13 x 13 cm110 EURBrooksby
Parisian Window: Flower Power
25 x 25 cm280 EURBrooksby
Paris Chiminies
19 x 19 cm180 EURBrooksby
Seine Cruise
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
Chez Flora
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
L'Apéro est Servi
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
Brasserie
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
Le Moulin Rouge
19 x 19 cm180 EURBrooksby
Ferrari in Toscana
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
La Carte des Vins
13 x 13 cm110 EURBrooksby
Havana Blue
19 x 19 cm180 EURBrooksby
Rue Monge
13 x 13 cm110 EURBrooksby
Huitres Servis
13 x 13 cm110 EURBrooksby
Un Clin d'œil sur Sacre Cœur
19 x 19 cm180 EURBrooksby
Chez Mon Amour
13 x 13 cm110 EURBrooksby
Flowery balcony: Chez Sylvie
25 x 25 cm280 EURBrooksby
Tabac Monge
19 x 19 cm180 EURBrooksby
Fleurs Rouges sur le Balcon Parisien
19 x 19 cm180 EURBrooksby
Urban Garden : Parisian Façade
25 x 25 cm280 EURBrooksby
Glycine sur la veille porte en Provence
13 x 13 cm110 EURBrooksby
Parisian Balcony - Chez Moi
25 x 25 cm280 EURBrooksby
Windowbox Geraniums
19 x 19 cm180 EURBrooksby
La Nuit à la Brasserie l'Européen
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
Café Paris
50 x 50 cm1.150 EURBrooksby
Le Faune au Jardin du Luxembourg
25 x 25 cm280 EURBrooksby
Deux Gars et Une Reine.
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
Marianne
13 x 13 cm110 EURBrooksby
Porte Fleurie
13 x 13 cm110 EURBrooksby
Parisian Cafe Dream
19 x 19 cm180 EURBrooksby
Bougainvillier
19 x 19 cm180 EURBrooksby
Reflections and Souvenirs
36 x 36 cm480 EUR- Sold
Brooksby
La Tour Eiffel et les Quais
36 x 36 cm480 EUR Brooksby
La Seine Mon Amour
36 x 36 cm480 EURBrooksby
Notre Dame et Toits de Paris
19 x 19 cm180 EURBrooksby
Parisian Window
13 x 13 cm110 EURBrooksby
Cafe le Bullier
100 x 100 cm3.050 EURBrooksby
Fenêtre Ouverte - open window
13 x 13 cm110 EURBrooksby
Le Moulin Rouge
13 x 13 cm110 EURBrooksby
Le Bistrot de l'Amour
19 x 19 cm180 EUR- Sold
Brooksby
Au café.
19 x 19 cm180 EUR Brooksby
L'Apéro est Servi
19 x 19 cm180 EURBrooksby
Looking Up
100 x 100 cm3.050 EURBrooksby
Fiat 500
13 x 13 cm110 EURBrooksby
Haussmann Facade
13 x 13 cm110 EURBrooksby
Chez Maman
80 x 80 cm2.100 EURBrooksby
Tanker
120 x 40 cm1.650 EURBrooksby
Le Sacré Coeur
36 x 36 cm480 EUR