February - July2007
Neon
After 21 years in historic Florence Italy, Brooksby finds the neon signs and in general all of the signs in the city in Paris one of the most striking elements of contemporary Paris. She uses her excellent tecnique and use of color to celebrate the juxtaposition of the neon halos and the pierre de taille in Paris of today. Paris is alive at night and these signs are flashing like an enticing peacock's tail.
Tuscany
Angie Brooksby lived for 21 years in Florence Italy where she developed two large bodys of oil paintings. One series is of the spectacular Tuscan landscape that began in 1990. She would ride her vespa out into the hills and paint on sight then as her canvases got larger she would travel into the hills with a van. Many of the paintings done on sight where later reworked into larger pieces in the studio. She considers the little studies to be zen paintings. Angie continues to paint Tuscany.
The Food Paintings 
The other series that Brooksby developed from 1998-2006 is a celebration of Italian cuisine. She calls them food paintings wine, cheese, cacciucco, fish, unusual vegetables, you name it. The still-lifes in this series inevitably have writing in the background; the writing can be recipes, proverbs or names of wine. Brooksby is no longer making the Italian Food Paintings. Between the paintings of Tuscany and the Food Paintings Angie Brooksby produced close to 200 paintings a year.
The Gables Collection -Villa Rosa
The Gables Collection Villa Rosa is a series of 50 large format European landscapes. The collection was commissioned directly by the Gables Residential coproration for the embellishement of the luxurious Villa Rosa. All fifty paintings were completed in seven months
1° Paris 2008-2009
These new works form an experimental series they are the results of the exciting discovery of black pigment - at one time banished from Brooksby's palette; the appearance of human figures in her paintings; the use of large format canvases. Painting on a large scale is the consequence of the commission of fifty paintings by the corporation Gables Residential that allowed Brooksby to move to Paris from Florence in January 2007. The use of black pigment is a desire that Angie has had for a long time. The greyness of Paris and cities in general lends itself to black. The appearance of figures in her works is what she sees in the city, people are part of the landscape; they can even be the entire landscape, they are the animation of her landscapes that before in Tuscany were exploding with colour but static in content.
These new works are also charged with the emotions of becoming a mother, having a baby forced her into 6 month period of reflection away from the studio, the first time in 18 years that she have not touched a paintbrush for so long.
Reflections
Reflections is a new series that stems from years of painting the warm Florentine colors mirrored in the Arno river. Three paintings in the Gables Villa Rosa collection and two dreams started Brooksby on this new series.
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