Angie Brooksby

While artist Angie Brooksby was born in Maryland, she has resided in Europe for the last several decades, including Tuscany and the French Riviera. She considers herself a contemporary realist painter, a style of art begun in the 1970s following the American realists of the early 1900s. Early contributors to this urban style include Robert Bellows, George B. Luks, John Sloan, and Edward Hopper.

In addition to the influence from these artists, Brooksby feels her twenty-one years painting the countryside of Tuscany is what honed her unique artistic style. The Tuscan colorist Llewlyn Lloyd inspired in Angie a desire to paint that she never learned at university in the Beaux Arts, while the theory of the simultaneous contrast of colors by Michel Eugene Chevreul deepened her passion for color.

As a child, Angie’s father brought her on journeys to the Southwest US, frequenting Northern Arizona, and Shanin Renee Art Gallery proudly represents Angie’s plein air Sedona series in our curation, inspired by those childhood trips. These days, you can find Angie at her gallery, Galerie Massillon, in Hyères, France, where she features her French urban compositions and striking plein air French landscapes.