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)
120 Artworks
Brooksby
Corner Balcony
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Brooksby
Au marché Mouffetard
100 x 100 cmSGD 7,500Brooksby
Balcony Geraniums
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Brooksby
Midtown Corner
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200Brooksby
Corvette Party
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200Brooksby
Secret RDV
100 x 100 cmSGD 7,500Brooksby
Senequier au Soleil
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Brooksby
Havana Taxi
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Brooksby
Le Judge
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Brooksby
Un Clin d'œil sur Sacre Cœur
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Brooksby
La Carte des Vins
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Brooksby
Coin Fleurit
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Brooksby
Marianne
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Brooksby
500 Gold
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Brooksby
Rue Monge
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Brooksby
French Riviera Alley
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Brooksby
Fleurs Rouges sur le Balcon Parisien
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Brooksby
Balcon Fleuri
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Brooksby
La Seine Mon Amour
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Brooksby
Havana Blue
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Brooksby
King Charles
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Brooksby
Au café.
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Brooksby
Flowery Window
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Brooksby
Le chateau
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Brooksby
l'Apéro Arrive
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Brooksby
Promenade au Jardin de Luxembourg
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Brooksby
Le Moulin Rouge
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Brooksby
Tanker
120 x 40 cmSGD 3,950Brooksby
Parisian Window: Flower Power
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Brooksby
Balcon au soleil
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Brooksby
Reflections and Souvenirs
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Brooksby
Parisian Rooftop
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Brooksby
L'Apéro est Servi
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100- Sold
Brooksby
La Tour Eiffel et les Quais
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100 Brooksby
Café Pause
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Brooksby
Porte Fleurie
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Brooksby
Aux Tuilleries
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Brooksby
Fenêtre Ouverte - open window
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Brooksby
Geraniums
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Brooksby
Chez Maman
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200- Sold
Brooksby
Notre Table
13 x 13 cmSGD 230 Brooksby
Classic in Piazza
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Brooksby
Lovers on the Bridge
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Brooksby
Parisien Flowers
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Brooksby
Notre Dame et Toits de Paris
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Brooksby
Toits Parisiens
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Brooksby
Bougainvillier
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Brooksby
Yellow Boat
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Brooksby
Glorious Seine
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Brooksby
La terrasse du Beauharnais
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Brooksby
Brasserie
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Brooksby
Glycine
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Brooksby
La Nuit à la Brasserie l'Européen
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Brooksby
Ferrari in Toscana
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Brooksby
Parisian Window
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Brooksby
Le Cafe
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Brooksby
Chez Mon Amour
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Brooksby
Vielle Porte Fleurie
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Brooksby
Flowery balcony: Chez Sylvie
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Brooksby
L'Apéro est Servi
19 x 19 cmSGD 390