Brooke considers herself a self-taught landscape painter, gaining knowledge from plein air peers when she took her easel outdoor for the first time in 2009 and producing a prolific output ever since. Her unique style evolved from a desire to investigate human perception in aesthetics, and to stimulate our human senses by exaggerating the color and space we see around us. With a background in “plein air” landscape painting, Brooke has gained an intuitive affinity for color and dynamic composition. Her “deconstructed” style has been described as a modern take on pointillism or a painterly version of blown-up computer pixels. This analytical way of breaking up a scene into blocks of color and putting them back together is both engaging in process as well as creating a lively composition. My recent work in acrylic is a contemporary take on traditional landscape painting and is either executed on site or in the studio. I analyze and respond to what I’m looking at with broken color mark making to maintain a lively sense of energy and vivid color. These “deconstructions” aim to shed light on the beauty of ordered chaos in everyday scenes. Over the past decade as an exhibiting artist Brooke has become nationally and internationally collected, hangs in numerous galleries in the PNW and most recently been featured in Sep 2022 issue of Plein Air Magazine for urban plein air painting. In 2019 she was featured in American Art Collector Magazine and in 2016 Southwest Art Magazine was selected as one of the “21 artists under 31” artists to watch. She was awarded a prestigious prize for best oil/acrylic painting at the 2018 Carmel Plein Air Competition in California and continues to be recognized for her unique work in a traditional field, earning 3rd place on Whidbey island’s 2023 plein air paintout and 2 honorable mentions at the Edmonds plein air paintouts 2022/23. If you live in the Seattle area you may also find her work in various businesses or neighborhood art walks. When Brooke is not making art she’s playing pinball as a world ranked competitor who participates in league and local tournaments.