http://www.brooksandersonart.com/water daily 0.75 2023-11-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1550020895729-0IJNEABVENUG00M4QKWD/Brooks-Anderson-Above-and-Below-seascape.jpg Water - ABOVE AND BELOW 36” x 60” oil on canvas A new approach of an original painting. The original didn’t work out for me. It looked contrived. I decided to attack it with intense colors, and painted out the clouds. I let that dry, and then proceeded to work from the horizon upwards into the sky section. The next morning, I took a palette knife to what I’d done the day before. I loved the color revealing itself from beneath. I followed the instructions from the painting, and developed the sky from that premise. The gestural clouds filled in, and I had a painting. Quite unlike anything I’d done before, and that’s a good thing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1550020895729-0IJNEABVENUG00M4QKWD/Brooks-Anderson-Above-and-Below-seascape.jpg Water - ABOVE AND BELOW 36” x 60” oil on canvas A new approach of an original painting. The original didn’t work out for me. It looked contrived. I decided to attack it with intense colors, and painted out the clouds. I let that dry, and then proceeded to work from the horizon upwards into the sky section. The next morning, I took a palette knife to what I’d done the day before. I loved the color revealing itself from beneath. I followed the instructions from the painting, and developed the sky from that premise. The gestural clouds filled in, and I had a painting. Quite unlike anything I’d done before, and that’s a good thing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1550033892759-13WAMX52PUIM2L44ONLL/Brooks-Anderson-Thalassa-seascape-painting.jpg Water - THALASSA 24” x 36” oil on canvas Thalassa - Greek Mythology; Primordial Goddess of the Sea Continuing our Greek God theme, I have titled this piece with a double meaning: as both a primeval and visceral experience of the awe of Nature; and a threshold, an opening or beginning. It is when we have become at one, submerged, baptized and connected with the invigorating depths, that we may actually find ourselves...even healing for these uneasy times. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1550034325921-OUJO0K9B3613JVXQ1254/Brooks-Anderson-Triton-seascape-painting.jpg Water - TRITON 18” x 48” oil on canvas I don’t know why, but it was unavoidable to title this piece after the Greek god of the oceans. Perhaps it was the light and power, the primal force, Nature confronting the viewer on its own terms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1470679277331-JPREQ0R7VJ7FIJFURABN/DeerPath.jpg Water https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1550021875917-AY1QY49C3JDLY5CPUFTN/Brooks-Anderson-Current1-seascape.jpg Water - CURRENT, NO. 1 14" x 18" oil on canvas A first in a series of water/ocean surface paintings. It’s a whole new seascape for me, for anyone — take out the bluffs, the boats, the horizon, the usual ingredients that can make up a typical seascape. What do you have left? The element of Water. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1550032660202-8XOWZRRKB8W9HTQLJ6G2/Brooks-Anderson-Open-Water-seascape-painting.jpg Water - OPEN WATER 40” x 60” oil on canvas Sometimes it’s not about detail anymore. After mastering seascapes for years, it was time to allow the sea and sky to master me. It took me to the edge — nothing but the elements of water and air, horizon and infinity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1550033210764-SK3M03VMX5A8F5KXS62V/Brooks-Anderson-Throne2-painting-Oregon-Coast.jpg Water - THRONE, NO. 2 12" x 19" oil on canvas There is nothing quite like the deep red and golden hues of sun-splashed high cliff walls over the rich greens of a churning west coast ocean! This particular stretch of the Oregon Coast is my favorite - inasmuch as I deeply identify with the power, drama, majesty, solidity, and spiritually commanding display of these monumental sea stacks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1550076368298-G6SH6WK4HTH5I8LHXACQ/Brooks-Anderson-Inlet-Massachusetts-landscape-painting.jpg Water - INLET 15" x 24" oil on canvas What began as a Luminist style painting of a tidal marsh in Hingham, Massachusetts, on the South Shore of Boston, turned into a full-fledged recreation of Nature itself - an emotive experience, a truly deep feeling of heaven and earth displayed on the stage of a coastal marsh. There is a suggestion of a Frederick Church painting here. Something heroic, operatic, tranquil - yet, engaging in a moment. It’s entitled “inlet” as an opening, a corridor to enter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1550032093277-Y2VIEO0WJ3UPKRDKV611/Brooks-Anderson-Current5-seascape-painting.jpg Water - CURRENT, NO. 5 24" x 36" oil on canvas The fifth in a series of water/ocean surface paintings. It’s a whole new seascape for me, for anyone — take out the bluffs, the boats, the horizon, the usual ingredients that can make up a typical seascape. What do you have left? The element of Water. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1478478337851-QYHZBM17101WOVBRECO0/shearwater+copy.jpg Water - SHEARWATER 12" x 19" oil on canvas Structure, light and luminosity, depth, theme and variation, push and pull, strong subject matter, and an excavation into the deeper realm of the unseen meeting with the seen, has always been an abiding drive for me to paint. I was lucky enough to have all those elements in this piece from the Mendocino Coast come from what was on my easel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1550078309026-5X4NXR57MXV89AU03U5B/Brooks-Anderson-HeadLand2-Mendocino-painting.jpg Water - HEAD LAND 10" x 20" oil on panel The challenge to paint in extreme detail, juxtaposed with my absolute and abiding love for the coast, makes for a great opportunity to take up that standard, and to go back to my roots of painting with this in mind: making tiny flecks of light believable, a smoothness of transition of water current surface, and the placement of darker valued shapes communing with one another. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1550079841179-CJZOZK7NM3LNTTNXF2C1/Brooks-Anderson-Oceanus1-seascape-painting.jpg Water - OCEANUS, NO. 4 12" x 24" oil on panel Once in a blue moon, a painting comes along that allows you to just sit and stare at it after it’s completed. I sat on my couch for a while, taking it all in. I gave it a Greek water god name. I rather liked it. One must confront the breaking wave, embraced by the salt, the power, the depth, the gift from the immensity. http://www.brooksandersonart.com/land daily 0.75 2021-09-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1478658166631-1JBSB2DTQONABIIGL6VA/valleyford+copy.jpg Land - VALLEY FORD 12" x 16" oil on panel Inspired by the Dutch Landscape School of the 17th Century Jacob van Ruisdael in particular), I went for a soft and haunting light, lyrical movement, a captivating, emotive quality to the painting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1478658166631-1JBSB2DTQONABIIGL6VA/valleyford+copy.jpg Land - VALLEY FORD 12" x 16" oil on panel Inspired by the Dutch Landscape School of the 17th Century Jacob van Ruisdael in particular), I went for a soft and haunting light, lyrical movement, a captivating, emotive quality to the painting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1541004102519-2P6P0KSV7QSDOMP8BRF0/ThatWhichRemainsno1.jpg Land - THAT WHICH REMAINS, NO. 1 24” x 20” oil on panel New dimensions, new directions. There are a number of levels to this piece. Painted with an attention to detail and luminosity by placing the California iconic redwood tree stand squarely in the center of the composition - there is a contemporary edge to this piece. The title bespeaks of our disappearing wilderness for the replacement of “progress.” That which remains is a sacred cathedral: Nature. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1550082796415-B5PNNIM2BKBXTR1PBN9M/Brooks-Anderson-Morning-Sequence-River1-Connecticut-painting.jpg Land - MORNING SEQUENCE: RIVER 10” x 20” oil on panel Transcribing the nuances of summer morning light from the Connecticut Shoreline, I still had it in me to emulate what I saw and felt, in a painting, the effects of atmosphere, land, water, reflection, and luminosity - with the backdrop of a gentle Connecticut River. I could see, firsthand, what the Hudson River School artists attempted to harness with the optical effects displayed before them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1470679211809-3Q7YMG9CV2ATTXWJW7X6/Portalno2.jpg Land - PORTAL, NO. 2 40" x 30" oil on canvas Roads, ubiquitous roads, taking us somewhere. What’s over that hill…unknown. Contrast that existential mystery with dark cypress and eucalyptus trees, distant luminous hills, and a vertical, strong composition with a nod and inspiration to the work of Wayne Thiebaud..and there you have it: “Portal, no. 2.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1550084539617-MG6MGT5RF3JTKYCE5NNJ/Brooks-Anderson-throne-of-the-mountain-kings-painting.jpg Land - THRONE OF THE MOUNTAINS 36" x 36" oil on canvas “Tonalism” was an artistic style that emerged in the 1880s when American artists began to paint landscape forms with an overall tone of colored atmosphere or mist. Between 1880 and 1915, dark, neutral hues such as gray, brown or blue, often dominated compositions by artists associated with the style. I would say this would be a “Tonalist” piece: evocative, emotive, lyrical — juxtaposed with a northern California backdrop. Compare this painting to one of my “Reemergence” Abstracts. No difference, other than the subject. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1550087174507-0F5IGTGXJ7Q51JVWBACZ/Brooks-Anderson-Borderlands2-West-Marin-painting.jpg Land - BORDERLANDS, NO. 2 24" x 48" oil on canvas Sometimes the main ingredients come together in a painting. I love “push and pull” in a landscape (in an abstract, too, as a matter of fact), or “tension and release” — where there are areas in a composition that garner bunched up energy and focus (as on the left of this painting, where the bay laurel trees have gathered, leaving the majority of the “quiet” areas of the horizontal hillsides to balance that energy out. Then there is the beauty of the disappearing golden light of the sun off to the right in this western Marin County playing off the cool-colored pine ridges. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1550088911544-AT5SIT65SKV1FN0T7V59/Brooks-Anderson-Two-Rock-Valley-Marin-painting.jpg Land - TWO ROCK VALLEY 16" x 20" oil on panel This is my return to painting the Two Rock Valley area of northern California, made famous by Christo and his "Running Fence" forty years ago. I have, in years previous, painted this magical area, often venturing out, with camera in hand, among the pastureland and stands of eucalyptus trees during a downpour. This particular tree stand is one of my favorite subjects. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1550089454666-CU6LCJYADER7D7L9HMUK/Brooks-Anderson-Stillwater1-seascape-painting.jpg Land - STILLWATER, NO. 1 12" x 36" oil on panel What a joy to paint this piece of the famed Mendocino Coast. I couldn’t wait to attack it — gently and with sensitivity, to its unique light and sinuous consistency in shape and structure. The long, horizontal narrative bespeaks the sweeping, luminous coastline from Northern California. The receding fog lifts its nightly veil to unfold a magical area and moment in time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1541003946914-3RMVE0Z6MGAAJ97PU39E/tidalmarshno3-postcard2.jpg Land - TIDAL MARSH, NO. 3 12” x 24” oil on panel It’s funny that certain places captivate you...for whatever reason. I keep going back to this estuary from Hingham on the south shore of Boston. Maybe it’s the composition, or maybe it’s the right vehicle for painting something timeless. Maybe it’s my new love of some beautiful things that happen to be in New England. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1541004268658-WRGHYAB1DDZ6CK8GD388/reverie+copy.jpg Land - REVERIE 12” x 18” oil on panel Reverie: “noun; the state of being pleasantly lost in one’s thoughts; a daydream. In music, an instrumental piece suggesting a dreamy or musing state.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1550192853750-98ACR122T0YT7ZEW60O3/Brooks-Anderson-Blackhead-Monhegan-Island-painting.jpg Land - BLACKHEAD, MONHEGAN 11" x 14" oil on canvas A century ago, in 1916, the American iconic painter, Edward Hopper, spent four summers in succession on Monhegan Island and Ogunquit (Maine). Painting alongside Robert Henri and Rockwell Kent, Hopper completed a body of work that deconstructed and changed the surface of landscape painting. I recently studied his ouevre, his paintings from the cliffs of Monhegan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1632754792992-XSNPTYQ2P4CEN4P5KE48/countyline+copy+copy.jpg Land - "COUNTY LINE" 40" x 58" oil on canvas http://www.brooksandersonart.com/air daily 0.75 2021-09-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1550105012123-X0J4GD9Y0I95TWA68WFX/Brooks-Anderson-Veritas2-painting.jpg Air - VERITAS, NO. 2 48” x 36” oil on canvas The second in a series of four, “Veritas,” in Latin, means “Truth.” In a day where truth is often hard to come by, as we are questioned daily through the news, the question from Pilate was, “What is truth.” For me, the truth always comes back to Nature. It doesn't know anything but truth, being, what IS. I have chosen the sun piercing through the clouds as my motif for truth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1550105012123-X0J4GD9Y0I95TWA68WFX/Brooks-Anderson-Veritas2-painting.jpg Air - VERITAS, NO. 2 48” x 36” oil on canvas The second in a series of four, “Veritas,” in Latin, means “Truth.” In a day where truth is often hard to come by, as we are questioned daily through the news, the question from Pilate was, “What is truth.” For me, the truth always comes back to Nature. It doesn't know anything but truth, being, what IS. I have chosen the sun piercing through the clouds as my motif for truth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1550105325874-SLGC208BC1ZX6ACE8T84/Brooks-Anderson-Cumulus1-painting.jpg Air - CUMULUS, NO. 1 40" x 30" oil on canvas The seminal start of my massive cloud explorations, it all fell together in this piece. There’s nothing like the first one setting the table. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1550105665066-QIOI87UKCCNZVUZX8II7/Brooks-Anderson-Terra-Australus1-painting.jpg Air - TERRA AUSTRALUS 48" x 48" oil on canvas My original cloud piece, with an inspiration from the Oregon Coast during a blustery day. My inspiration also came from see, for the first time, a seascape of Gerhard Richter. From then on, I took the motif and made it my own. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1550106157998-W1FBEAEXD2D1TUJXUM2M/Brooks-Anderson-Andromeda2-painting.jpg Air - ANDROMEDA, NO. 2 40" x 30" oil on canvas To be in the midst of painting a number of smaller, detailed, landscapes and seascapes currently, I’ve had the opportunity to work on a couple of commissions of more truly evocative, emotive, semi-abstract paintings. They presented me with a unique challenge of revisiting and recreating two works that were all about emotion, response, and non-objective painting from the gut. No small task. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1550106792274-04NSXKNXQSE3OOO78NLX/Brooks-Anderson-Andromeda1-cloudscape-painting.jpg Air - ANDROMEDA, NO. 1 40" x 30" oil on canvas This is the first of two of the Andromeda series. To be in the midst of painting a number of smaller, detailed, landscapes and seascapes currently, I’ve had the opportunity to work on a couple of commissions of more truly evocative, emotive, semi-abstract paintings. They presented me with a unique challenge of revisiting and recreating two works that were all about emotion, response, and non-objective painting from the gut. No small task. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1550106387935-BH51YFSNXBPURVSXLI6P/Brooks-Anderson-Covenant-cloudscape-painting.jpg Air - COVENANT 36” x 48” oil on canvas There is something about the confluence of power and beauty, a force of Nature witnessed. But this oil on canvas painting is not just about a large thunderhead, as it is entitled, “Covenant,” or an agreement between the intensions of Spirit, of the Divine, and the human. It’s a place where I just want to take off my shoes - an act of trust and submission to the superior force - and stand back and observe what’s before me...and consequently, feel the Divine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1550107421088-H5F1JSD73YYZMSZM6AAC/Brooks-Anderson-Come-With-Thunder-cloudscape-painting.jpg Air - COME WITH THUNDER 60" x 48" oil on canvas A visitor who came to one of my open studios, after viewing this painting for a while, told me he was a pilot, and that he actually flew on the Space Shuttle a few times. He told me that I had captured the most intriguing vantage point with this painting, where you are no longer looking up at the cloud, as we usually do on land, nor looking down on clouds as we fly across country. He told me I caught the view that only pilots see — that of actually flying into the cloud head-on. This is a very powerful painting for me, as it entails a variety of elements. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1550107678798-QB550C9XTW81K4N3WZRD/Brooks-Anderson-Cumulus4-cloudscape-painting.jpg Air - CUMULUS, NO. 4 40" x 30" oil on canvas This monolith of a cloud seems to confront the issue between semi-abstraction and realism. It’s about portals, passageways into the realm into and through the cloud. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1550108088829-BX853N2SD66Z17ACQFHT/Brooks-Anderson-Veritas3-cloudscape-painting.jpg Air - VERITAS, NO. 3 48” x 36” oil on canvas The third in a series of four, “Veritas,” in Latin, means “Truth.” In a day where truth is often hard to come by, as we are questioned daily through the news, the question from Pilate was, “What is truth.” For me, the truth always comes back to Nature. It doesn't know anything but truth, being, what IS. I have chosen the sun piercing through the clouds as my motif for truth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1550181946043-6QEOPQHW1FCL5MWK3Q6L/Brooks-Anderson-Cloud-Atlas-cloudscape-painting.jpg Air - CLOUD ATLAS 40" x 30" oil on canvas “The strength of the idea, its execution and its originality are the signposts that the gallery looks for in the art that it represents.” Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1550182316668-R07PG9O3R5D9LSSP4KRB/Brooks-Anderson-Shroud-cloudscape-painting.jpg Air - SHROUD 20" x 24" oil on panel “Brooks Anderson is, above all, a true believer in the power of painting. With a skilled hand and deft brush, Anderson speaks powerfully of the awe and wonder found in our experience of atmosphere and natural phenomenon…it is in this new series of cloud paintings that his vision opens up and aspires to majesty. The changing shapes of clouds fascinate us since childhood, and link us together no matter where we dwell. Anderson effectively lifts our eyes and encourages us to marvel again at the powerful billowing commonplace of the sky.” Dan Addington, Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1550184260003-WAW1G92MMX8D8KZJYIYN/Brooks-Anderson-Bodhisattva-cloudscape-painting.jpg Air - BODHISATTVA 48” x 36” oil on canvas BODHISATTVA: “In Buddhism, Bodhisattva is the Sanskrit term for anyone who has generated Bodhicitta, a spontaneous wish and compassionate mind to attain Buddhahood for the benefit of all sentient beings; a person who is able to reach nirvana but delays doing so out of compassion in order to save suffering beings.” For me, all things are connected by spiritual Being. That includes and is found in the appearance of a beautiful column of cloud, hovering above a field. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1550185248356-Z5QSXTI547LUN2DT035C/Brooks-Anderson-Praying-For-Land1-sun-reflection-painting.jpg Air - PRAYING FOR LAND, NO. 1 48” x 36” oil on canvas Quite unlike anything I’ve ever done, this is a largely spiritual painting, one might even call Symbolism. Of course, Turner, at times like this, is an influence. Taking out all detail, this subject matter becomes far more about emotion - what it’s like to stand at the precipice and being bathed in Light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1550185456785-OZRCGXTJRDSS4EUE54OU/Brooks-Anderson-Terminus5-skyscape-painting.jpg Air - TERMINUS, NO. 5 14” x 11” oil on canvas Clouds for me are a constant muse to paint. Sometimes it’s key to leave best laid plans alone; so not painting a cloud this time, while painting the background, presented a more spiritual edge to the painting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1550185855105-7MZX5E9XXLE15GWFBOYZ/Brooks-Anderson-Lumina3-detail.jpg Air - (detail) LUMINA, NO. 3 36" x 48" oi on canvas A detail of the painting, “Lumina, no. 3,” which is a larger version of a previous painting - "Lumina, no. 2," which hangs in Cooper & Smith Gallery in Essex, CT - this painting exhibits a full-blown looseness and vibrancy of paint; brushstroke and color choice were purely spontaneous. One of my followers saw this image on the web, and commented, accurately, “Turner!” http://www.brooksandersonart.com/current daily 0.75 2025-11-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1699566028393-D7FNOXF84X31CXD1AC8J/Brooks-Anderson-talisman-contemporary-realism-painting.jpg Current - "Talisman" 24" x 60" oil on panel This painting is a culmination of years of searching, envisioning, being patient - brushstroke by brushstroke, theme by theme. It represents both the sacred and the mystical, the numinous and totemic. That, for me, is the landscape...as if you had been invited to an altar to behold a vision. It's an important piece for me; and an arresting one, to be sure. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1699566028393-D7FNOXF84X31CXD1AC8J/Brooks-Anderson-talisman-contemporary-realism-painting.jpg Current - "Talisman" 24" x 60" oil on panel This painting is a culmination of years of searching, envisioning, being patient - brushstroke by brushstroke, theme by theme. It represents both the sacred and the mystical, the numinous and totemic. That, for me, is the landscape...as if you had been invited to an altar to behold a vision. It's an important piece for me; and an arresting one, to be sure. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1605641220039-B402QED9861S13S140RP/Brooks-Anderson-Cathedral-2020-contemporary-realism-painting.jpg Current - CATHEDRAL (2020) 48" x 60" oil on canvas Who would’ve thought an agave plant could become a holy thing...but to me, all Nature is sacred—and not only a holy experience, but a respite, a teaching, a cleansing of the soul during difficult times as these. This piece elicits a similar theme I’ve brought out with the cactus paintings: Reconciling the dark and light values (shadow and sunlit), all in concert with one another. As I’ve said before, it’s only when we embrace, contain, and deal with these rich and deep nuances of darkness and light that we can truly emerge and go forward. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1631217801170-S23WXJWSF243GIVW73CP/Brooks-Anderson-AQUARIUS-California-contemporary-realism-painting.jpg Current - “AQUARIUS” 48” x 48” x 2.5” oil on canvas This painting is about the dawning of hope in these dark times, an awakening and rebirth for what already is, and for what is coming: the entrance into a new age. We are moving from control and dominance into a more peaceful, vibrant, and abundant good for all humanity. The subject matter is of a gourd, which represents the harvest of life, fertility, and rebirth. This aquarian water-bearer is grounded to the earth—juxtaposed with the vastness of the sea and sky, or infinity. This piece also contains the four elements of Nature: air, water, earth, and fire (the dawning sunlight). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1605638912410-1SQYK04LE7BX4BNIPF0U/Brooks-Anderson-Emergence-ShadowsandLight-cactus-painting.jpg Current - “EMERGENCE: SHADOWS AND LIGHT” 24” x 48” oil on panel I’m using cactus in this instance as a vehicle for exploring and recognizing the nuances of shadows (our historic dark or hidden places), as well as the luminous, surface places—and all the varying values in between. I consider myself a deep, spiritual thinker; and I also respect and honor the many aspects of what makes us human. It’s only when we embrace and contain these rich and deep nuances that we can truly emerge and go forward. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1631214102055-BOCB1RWUHAJYI6HLT6IV/Brooks-Anderson-TABULARASA-California-contemporary-realism-painting.jpg Current - "TABULA RASA (Clean Slate)" 40" x 36" oil on canvas : smoothed or erased tablet : the mind in its hypothetical primary blank or empty state before receiving external impressions : when something returns to its original pristine state, all pre-conceived notions are wiped clean; the gift of a fresh start https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1631215146453-04O3PZP9YP9DFEQ2LK2Q/Brooks-Anderson-islandofthebluedolphins-contemporary-realism-painting.jpg Current - "ISLAND OF THE BLUE DOLPHINS" 36" x 60" oil on canvas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1710086282176-AD2Q16MIR2VFLF4UGID8/Brooks-Anderson-altarpiece-goodomen-contemporary-realism-painting.jpg Current - “Altarpiece: Good Omen” 30” x 60” oil on canvas Going deeper into the holy. Getting closer to the within. Dealing with the power of the unknown, à la Joseph Campbell. Less of landscape or sky-scape, and more pure symbolism. It’s about a raw, riveting face to face with the Manitou, the divine visitant announcing what is to be. I’m always up for receiving good omens. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1710087114942-30F25CV9TLAGPL1OSAH4/Brooks-Anderson-bright-angel-California-contemporary-realism-painting.jpg Current - "Bright Angel" 36" x 48" oil on canvas The dance of the organic natural world, juxtaposed with the geometric sophistication of the modern, developed world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1710087777593-QGRP1UE9A2C6IBNREC58/Brooks-Anderson-AD-LUCEM-California-contemporary-realism-painting.jpg Current - "AD LUCEM (To the Light)" 36" x 48" oil on canvas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1605638146877-H7TR2FGA82G2B622DXHU/Brooks-Anderson-AdAstra-California-contemporary-realism-painting.jpg Current - AD ASTRA (To the Stars) 24" x 48" oil on canvas The reflection of the sun, our brilliant star, on the ocean surface is as a field of stars in itself. There is a choreography of sunlight, clouds, and wave. The four elements of Nature—water, air, fire, and earth—are contained in this piece. The most significant aspect of life isn’t in the conflict between the known and the unknown, but in our relationship to it: our relationship to the natural world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1710088377503-WXF6T2HXD8R5ED4XI0YI/Brooks-Anderson-Pacific-Rim-no4-California-contemporary-realism-painting.jpg Current - "Pacific Rim, no. 4" 24" x 48" oil on panel Untouched beauty. This landscape is literally from land’s end, looking out onto Drakes Bay along one of the southern reaches of Pt. Reyes National Seashore. The coastline has been basically unmarred from the past 5000 years, in the time of the Coastal Miwok people. The other bit of interest is that I painted this in the style of the Hudson River School II, in the Luminist tradition - with a great emphasis on the quality of diffuse light and minimal buildup of brushstroke. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1699566422710-0TH409TRJOD25549KW66/Brooks-Anderson-leviathan-california-contemporary-realism-painting.jpg Current - "LEVIATHAN" 24" x 48" oil on panel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1605640173305-29OVU46BMP7082ONFKQJ/Brooks-Anderson-INVICTUS-California-eucalyptus-painting.jpg Current - INVICTUS (UNDEFEATED) 18” x 36” oil on panel This painting evokes the resilience and invincibility of the human spirit in the face of extreme personal and global challenges. The space for sublimity to articulate these disturbing times. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1653689529517-PULSTWL3CCWF2323R8HS/Brooks-Anderson-Territory-Ahead-California-contemporary-realism-painting.jpg Current - "TERRITORY AHEAD" 24" x 48" oil on canvas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1653688818945-OIDCB8ZE770EB83U46CI/Brooks-Anderson-Pacific-Rim-Estero-California-contemporary-realism-painting.jpg Current - PACIFIC RIM (ESTERO)" 24" x 72" oil on canvas This piece evokes a deep, calming, luminous and powerful presence. Although the subject matter is Drakes Estero at the Point Reyes National Seashore, this pristine and timeless landscape reminds us that Nature presents stability for our times. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1631215467947-W7HVJ0O6C55S7TSX09RY/Brooks-Anderson-placeoforigin-California-contemporary-realism-painting.jpg Current - "PLACE OF ORIGIN" 18" x 36" x 2" oil on canvas When you grow up with a love for two things—the vast Pacific Ocean and its light quality in front of you, and for the indigenous people that once walked those hills or navigated those waters in their tomols or te’aats (canoes)—sooner or later in your life as an artist they come knocking, they come full circle. This then is my simple homage to what once was, and is indelibly linked still. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1631216162421-9WJEQUOUK437FUU20ZAQ/Brooks-Anderson-OFFERTORIO-California-contemporary-realism-painting.jpg Current - “OFFERTORIO” 48” x 36” oil on canvas “Offering,” in Italian, as in the sacred part of a religious service. Nature is religion for me, and the ocean is constantly offering new things that wash up, new vistas, reflection and light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1593483530445-O7NBPV6610TFI6OSO6EA/Brooks-Anderson-Offshore-California-landscape-painting.jpg Current - "GRAVITAS: STUDY" 18" x 36" oil on panel Viewers of this painting sometimes ask me, “What caused me to place a centered, hanging tree branch coming down from the top?” This is the beauty of a fresh, new view of things. I have all the elements of landscape in this composition; but it causes us to rethink, to see these typical ingredients in a new, spiritual light. This is what landscape painting should do. I will continue, though, to take down the visual notation which Nature gives me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1631217543764-69RGGJ3KCYHVWHP2FWFE/Brooks-Anderson-MEMENTOVIVERE-California-contemporary-realism-painting.jpg Current - "MEMENTO VIVERE (Remember to Live)" 36" x 48" oil on canvas This painting is all about the juxtaposition of life and death. Death and loss have been in a constant duet with life this past year. The foreground represents a sort of stage. The dead tree stump, situated almost squarely in the center of the foreground, represents the death someone has experienced of someone else close to them. The serpentine, thriving tree represents all of that which remains. The light of a rising sun from the side not only gives warmth, but brings compositional symmetry and rhythm—a reminder of care and continuation. New growth in the foreground area is being bathed by this light. It is in the background of the sea and sky that we have a juxtaposition of this earthly, rooted stage with immense, infinite light and life. It is a remembrance to live which this piece elicits. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1666730376270-SL2U32VRZJ983P0X95BG/reverie-intoevening.jpg Current - REVERIE (INTO EVENING) 30" x 40" oil on canvas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1595022942180-VT5A1Z20DSC677XT2X5O/Brooks-Anderson-Yellow-Canoe-landscape-painting.jpg Current - 'YELLOW CANOE" 13" x 21" oil on canvas In the style of American "Luminism" of the Hudson River School II. I'm working on a few smaller works done with that Turner-esque atmosphere, reminding myself and my viewers that light--and reflection--surrounds us in this fairly dark and weighty patch we're in. This piece, in particular, espouses to a mix of the doctrines of Luminism and Turner: characterized by effects of light in landscape and a diffuse horizon line; emphasizing tranquility; close control of structure, tone, and light; and often depict calm, reflective water surrounded by a soft, hazy sky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1550191654966-0VF2VM2CRA3XEAUK8N7H/Brooks-Anderson-Oceanus1-seascape-painting.jpg Current - OCEANUS, NO. 1 12" x 36" oil on panel Once in a blue moon, a painting comes along that allows you to just sit and stare at it after it’s completed. I sat on my couch for a while, taking it all in. I gave it a Greek water god name. I rather liked it. One must confront the breaking wave, embraced by the salt, the power, the depth, the gift from the immensity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1550273487493-0GTLM73W75CKWT9K3X3K/Brooks-Anderson-Open-Water-seascape-painting.jpg Current - OPEN WATER 40” x 60” oil on canvas Sometimes it’s not about detail anymore. After mastering seascapes for years, it was time to allow the sea and sky to master me. It took me to the edge — nothing but the elements of water and air, horizon and infinity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1653688270759-M52YEKE7NHPIASPQ004F/Brooks-Anderson-VIRGA-California-contemporary-realism-painting.jpg Current - VIRGA 40" x 60" oil on canvas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1699567011293-L934VSNQ6N8HTYQ93M2M/Brooks-Anderson-towerno4-California-contemporary-realism-painting.jpg Current - "Tower, no. 4" 24" x 48" oil on panel A simple scene - yet complex. This is an interplay piece, and there is some choreography going on. The “negative space” of the sky mirrors the shape of the lower left land mass and ocean, like puzzle pieces; the blues and greens of the lifeguard tower are repeated in the ocean; and the purple sand colors relate to the cliffs. Also, there is a central, stationary stillness, contrasted with the movement of the wave. Finally, the lifeguard tower mirrors the solidity of the cliffs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1666730643168-980JAB6VLZKSV9RSZ3D8/Brooks-Anderson-the-channel-California-contemporary-realism-painting.jpg Current - THE CHANNEL 24" x 48" oil on canvas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1550279115867-YEN9EX6M1XJ0L5OXCQON/Brooks-Anderson-Above-and-Below-seascape.jpg Current - ABOVE AND BELOW 36” x 60” oil on canvas A new approach of an original painting. The original didn’t work out for me. It looked contrived. I decided to attack it with intense colors, and painted out the clouds. I let that dry, and then proceeded to work from the horizon upwards into the sky section. The next morning, I took a palette knife to what I’d done the day before. I loved the color revealing itself from beneath. I followed the instructions from the painting, and developed the sky from that premise. The gestural clouds filled in, and I had a painting. Quite unlike anything I’d done before, and that’s a good thing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1605640619867-ZGF1Z8R6803CBP5WOUNC/Brooks-Anderson-KOSMOS-Order-contemporary-realism-painting.jpg Current - KÓSMOS (ORDER) 31” x 50” oil on canvas I’m not going to focus on chaos, as there’s enough of that going around these days. Within one wave is the very definition of Order within the Universe. Power, rhythm, depth and symmetry are frozen in this moment of time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1710096879095-OTUPANNQ52T4UK83LAB5/Brooks-Anderson-torso-California-painting.jpg Current - "Torso" 40" x 30" oil on canvas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1593483750948-0L35FUN7SNVI48FCWUQD/Brooks-Anderson-IMMORTALIS-contemporary-realism-painting.jpg Current - "IMMORTALIS" 18" x 36" oil on panel I demand of myself to rethink landscape/seascape painting. To address this, currently my direction is a combination of unveiling the pristine, fresh and contemporary seascape; but to also bring out the timeless attribute of the eternality of Nature—without reference to a certain place or time. What is left is an evocative presence, a visual symbol and metaphor of our inseparable connection to life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1605641015592-LL7UCU3IBJGKOMNTA3JS/Brooks-Anderson-PORTALIS-contemporary-realism-painting.jpg Current https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1631215897462-JBEK59QB11EQ4J81F3LF/Brooks-Anderson-mothertongue-California-contemporary-realism-painting.jpg Current - “MOTHER TONGUE” 36” x 72” oil on canvas Our original language was one of inseparability with Nature, a spiritual, incorporeal duet with all things wilderness. It’s the reason we’re still transfixed when viewing a sunset, an overlook, a field of daisies. It’s our native state, this ancient connection, our mother tongue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1539103846182-9JFABGNH64CE2DVM64ZI/Thalassa+copy.jpg Current - THALASSA 24” x 36” x 2.5” oil on canvas Thalassa - Greek Mythology; Primordial Goddess of the Sea Continuing our Greek God theme, I have titled this piece with a double meaning: as both a primeval and visceral experience of the awe of Nature; and a threshold, an opening or beginning. It is when we have become at one, submerged, baptized and connected with the invigorating depths, that we may actually find ourselves...even healing for these uneasy times. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1593485636354-VPSFXO4IYHUD94XGWD4D/Brooks-Anderson-Heaven-and-Earth-landscape-painting.jpg Current - "HEAVEN AND EARTH, NO. 2" 40" x 60" oil on canvas This painting was begun at the beginning of the pandemic, and it had a thoughtful impact on me. With landscape as a vehicle, I brought in the power and depth of the skies over a bucolic landscape. But it goes further and deeper than that: the confluence of the heavenly overseeing this earthly plane, the "Spirit moving over the face of the waters." The darkness pronounces and accentuates the light and vibrancy of life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1576184081661-KKD86TH9763UK0Q36GC0/Brooks-Anderson-Kingdom-Luminism-landscape-painting.jpg Current - KINGDOM 30" x 44" oil on canvas Another large-scale painting of an ethereal scene..timeless, compelling, evocative, spiritual. This particular piece was painted during the recent torrent of fires that threatened so much of Sonoma County. I needed to paint and be in my studio (turning off the news and fire threats for a while), and this piece was a spiritual, therapeutic practice for me during that period. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1550190923398-4ZM5HSVTIOQDMAZSL3I7/Brooks-Anderson-Cloud-Atlas-cloudscape-painting.jpg Current - CLOUD ATLAS 40" x 30" oil on canvas “The strength of the idea, its execution and its originality are the signposts that the gallery looks for in the art that it represents.” Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1550191798610-1MFUZX3TAXTSNX7F9W11/Brooks-Anderson-That-Which-Remains-redwoods-painting.jpg Current - THAT WHICH REMAINS 24" x 20" oil on panel New dimensions, new directions. There are a number of levels to this piece. Painted with an attention to detail and luminosity by placing the California iconic redwood tree stand squarely in the center of the composition - there is a contemporary edge to this piece. The title bespeaks of our disappearing wilderness for the replacement of “progress.” That which remains is a sacred cathedral: Nature. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1550204213784-NWRPCFGUF43ORTQNWWBM/Brooks-Anderson-Sand-Beach7-Maine-painting.jpg Current - SAND BEACH, NO. 7 24" x 20” oil on paper on panel One of my favorites from the series of coastal Maine paintings, this vertical piece exhibits and very strong composition of movement, texture, cool and warm — allowing for the background islands, ocean, and sky to flatten out and in a harmonic interplay with the foreground movement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1550528790015-6T1NCV5Q44XS5EYUH12B/Brooks-Anderson-Triton-seascape-painting.jpg Current - TRITON 18” x 48” oil on linen I don’t know why, but it was unavoidable to title this piece after the Greek god of the oceans. Perhaps it was the light and power, the primal force, Nature confronting the viewer on its own terms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1576182870469-CTKMW7G3QNB2U5ZVDEX6/Brooks-Anderson-Poseidon-no2-seascape-painting.jpg Current - POSEIDON, NO. 2 30" x 48" oil on canvas Why are there so many artists painting waves?...I think a lot has to do with a sense of awe. Something about them scoops us in with such power and elegance, light and transparency, and a constant sense of renewal we receive from the ocean. Besides being an over-painted and cliché subject, there’s something in the mystique of that force and to harness that on canvas. I chose the name “Poseidon” as the primary Olympian God of the sea, an homage to the ancient myth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1550258633327-9WN7OSJ30AUFX8FBY760/Brooks-Anderson-Humboldt-County4-painting.jpg Current - HUMBOLDT COUNTY, NO. 4 24" x 36" oil on panel Majestic, dramatic, and pristine — the far Northern California coastline presents both a wildness and an unmatched spiritual venue for reflection and replenishment. Nature has constant lessons and teachings to remind us of our untouched connection to things deep and holy. In this particular painting, I have broadened and expanded the ridge of mountains vertically to re-present this powerful coastal range. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1550190681709-DGJSK0MKTBRZWGZMH3VM/Brooks-Anderson-Praying-For-Land1-sun-reflection-painting.jpg Current - PRAYING FOR LAND 48" x 36" oil on canvas Quite unlike anything I’ve ever done, this is a largely spiritual painting, one might even call Symbolism. Of course, Turner, at times like this, is an influence. Taking out all detail, this subject matter becomes far more about emotion - what it’s like to stand at the precipice and being bathed in Light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1632756042117-TKNKBQZ9K8SZEHUTIYQ6/Brooks-Anderson-Lumina2-painting.jpg Current - LUMINA, NO. 3 36" x 48" oil on canvas A follow up to the two previous vertical paintings, “Praying for Land” and “Lumina, no. 1,” this horizontal painting is completely ethereal, smooth-toned, and with a contemporary approach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1539103778108-16LY2R70Q3PHUH5VZTC8/Veritasno2+copy.jpg Current - VERITAS, NO. 2 48” x 36” oil on canvas The second in a series of four, “Veritas,” in Latin, means “Truth.” In a day where truth is often hard to come by, as we are questioned daily through the news, the question from Pilate was, “What is truth.” For me, the truth always comes back to Nature. It doesn't know anything but truth, being, what IS. I have chosen the sun piercing through the clouds as my motif for truth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1550262607149-3BWLJKQ8ALW0TIT4VCPR/Brooks-Anderson-Terminus5-skyscape-painting.jpg Current - TERMINUS, NO. 5 14” x 11” oil on canvas Clouds for me are a constant muse to paint. Sometimes it’s key to leave best laid plans alone; so not painting a cloud this time, while painting the background, presented a more spiritual edge to the painting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1550263516853-VLWA9QAUO5KCWACHCRN4/Brooks-Anderson-Talus2-cloudscape-painting.jpg Current - TALUS, NO. 2 18" x 24" oil on panel This painting, the second of two explorations, was painted with a light hand - with the sensitivity and rhythm of what clouds feel like to me, full of grace and nuance. This piece is also built up with triangles. I had an art teacher years ago, Saul Bernstein, at California State University, Northridge, who taught us how El Greco’s painting, “View of Toledo,” was broken up into all triangles. I’ve done that here...pretty much the entire composition is large, medium, and small triangles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1550263888333-CQVFA49CAVW8FEYWEIJG/Brooks-Anderson-Talus1-cloudscape-painting.jpg Current - TALUS, NO. 1 18" x 24" oil on panel This particular composition presents a somewhat yin/yang layout, the space and dance between earth and sky. Further going in, further deepening the work, I paint to bring about the simplicity of fresh, contemporary paintings from Nature’s edge. “Sell your cleverness, and purchase bewilderment.” Rumi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1539124975398-GUEOIY48MWZ8EWR38QSI/Covenant-iPhoneredo+copy.jpg Current - COVENANT 36” x 48” oil on canvas There is something about the confluence of power and beauty, a force of Nature witnessed. But this oil on canvas painting is not just about a large thunderhead, as it is entitled, “Covenant,” or an agreement between the intensions of Spirit, of the Divine, and the human. It’s a place where I just want to take off my shoes - an act of trust and submission to the superior force - and stand back and observe what’s before me...and consequently, feel the Divine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1632755811068-C6PB97PM21L09B5A9B28/Gravitas+copy.jpg Current - "GRAVITAS" 48" x 96" x 2.5" oil on panel “Gravitas” is defined as gravity; a seriousness; the solemnity of life: at times dark and heavy, burdened and anxious. The Monterey cypress branch illustrates that ponderous weight—whether in the political climate, or in climate change. Yet, as in life, there is a juxtaposition. Surrounding this weightiness is a backdrop of an illuminated landscape exhibiting an immense, boundless clarity, and awe. Gravitas is also defined as resoluteness and enthrallment. A landscape painting, in this instance, may be a vantage point or focus for meditation and resolve. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1763161923998-85C8DHOZM2KNSU5ROYXN/IMMOTUS-Unmoved-California-contemporary-realism-painting.jpg Current http://www.brooksandersonart.com/abstract daily 0.75 2019-02-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1550013330530-0J9F1A91NTUO4653KXT2/Brooks-Anderson-Reemergence4-abstract.jpg Abstract - REEMERGENCE, NO. 4 36" x 36" oil on canvas The second of two current commissions, this beast of a semi-abstract painting was a previous direction for me years ago. The theme and feeling is no longer about a landscape or seascape, but of an inner spiritual Light, the razor-edge patch of light on what appears to be a horizon…Heaven and earth, a hovering presence of the Divine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1550013330530-0J9F1A91NTUO4653KXT2/Brooks-Anderson-Reemergence4-abstract.jpg Abstract - REEMERGENCE, NO. 4 36" x 36" oil on canvas The second of two current commissions, this beast of a semi-abstract painting was a previous direction for me years ago. The theme and feeling is no longer about a landscape or seascape, but of an inner spiritual Light, the razor-edge patch of light on what appears to be a horizon…Heaven and earth, a hovering presence of the Divine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1550013895134-4G6GEV0AARB7BX6LWGRP/Brooks-Anderson-Reemergence5-abstract.jpg Abstract - REEMERGENCE, NO. 5 36" x 36" oil on canvas A series I entitled, “Reemergence,” I was exploring fire and earth elements, underpainting, process, immediacy, and passages. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1470679904384-HNLZCYF4HO3AXHW3DKGN/smokesignalno3.jpg Abstract - SMOKE SIGNAL, NO. 3 36" x 36" oil on canvas A series of four paintings I called “Smoke Signal,” from the first one (starting with a technique called “stippling”) to the fourth painting, they got increasingly gestural. This one, the third of the series, was a response to a Richard Diebenkorn exhibit of his “Berkeley” paintings at the De Young Museum in San Francisco. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1550014346106-MR1N3WHMNGNDZ6E8W74Z/Brooks-Anderson-smokesignalno2-abstract.jpg Abstract - SMOKE SIGNAL, NO. 2 oil on canvas 36" x 36" A series of four paintings I called “Smoke Signal,” from the first one (starting with a technique called “stippling”) to the fourth painting, they got increasingly gestural. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1550019215763-0A0JYNTL34N79QOE7S7T/Brooks-Anderson-Reemergencen6-abstract.jpg Abstract - REEMERGENCE, NO. 6 36" x 36" oil on canvas The sixth of eight in a series, this semi-abstract painting was a new direction for me years ago. The theme and feeling is no longer about a seascape with a horizon, but of an inner spiritual Light and energy…Heaven and earth, a hovering presence of the Divine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1550020010000-64KIILWEQWD6RSVCT4X2/Brooks-Anderson-Reemergence3-abstract.jpg Abstract - REEMERGENCE, NO. 3 oil on canvas 36" x 36" Another from the “Reemergence” series, further explorations into non-objective work — which undoubtedly pushed me into truly painting, responding to the layers of built up colors and energy. http://www.brooksandersonart.com/commisions daily 0.75 2019-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1549990858371-4M9TQCFRSA0UWIKG7MVZ/Brooks-Anderson-American-Ag-Credit-web.jpg Commissions - American AgCredit Worldwide Headquarters, Santa Rosa, CA American AgCredit Worldwide Headquarters, Santa Rosa, CA Second floor lobby installation of my commissioned painting of the Colorado Rockies: “PILLAR OF CLOUD: MOUNT PRINCETON” 48" x 36" oil on canvas __________ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1549990858371-4M9TQCFRSA0UWIKG7MVZ/Brooks-Anderson-American-Ag-Credit-web.jpg Commissions - American AgCredit Worldwide Headquarters, Santa Rosa, CA American AgCredit Worldwide Headquarters, Santa Rosa, CA Second floor lobby installation of my commissioned painting of the Colorado Rockies: “PILLAR OF CLOUD: MOUNT PRINCETON” 48" x 36" oil on canvas __________ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1549992440716-YJVJR64H4CYP5FTBPBW3/Brooks-Anderson-Sutter-Health-SF-installation.jpg Commissions - Sutter Health, Sutter Pacific Medical Foundation Sutter Health, Sutter Pacific Medical Foundation, downtown San Francisco 55 2nd Street, San Francisco, CA “ETERNA” (on the left) 60" x 48" oil on canvas “POINT OF ARCHES: WASHINGTON” (on the right) 48" x 36" oil on canvas Premier location, street level, front window __________ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1472673790042-M9HGI4RFS1HBEWBIYXBG/Nancy_quote.jpg Commissions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1470686484797-M5ZLB7Q8PW8JMKBHYNPY/Sutter_SantaRosa_Hospital.jpg Commissions - Sutter Regional Hospital, Santa Rosa, CA Sutter Regional Hospital, Santa Rosa, CA Main waiting room, first floor “CUMULUS: PRESENCE” (on the left) 48" x 36" giclée on canvas “CUMULUS: COME WITH THUNDER” (on the right) 48" x 36" giclée on canvas ____________ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1549993508108-MK0KJGN531ADS3GDUPJ6/Brooks-Anderson-Medtronic-Corporation-Minimed-Northridge-installation.jpg Commissions - Medtronic Corporation, Northridge, CA Medtronic Corporation, Medtronic Minimed in Northridge, CA Principle Board Room “GIGANTEA, No. 2” (on Left) 48" x 66" oil on canvas “GIGANTEA STUDIES, Nos. 1, 2, 3” (on Right) 36" x 36" oil on canvas ____________ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1549993952062-X0J45A5UX7SR1XV74R4P/Brooks-Anderson-Philbrook-Museum-of-Art-Tulsa-collection.jpg Commissions - Philbrook Museum of Art collection, Tulsa, OK Philbrook Museum of Art collection, Tulsa, OK http://www.tfaoi.com/newsm1/n1m605.htm Prominent collection of artwork in a museum, the Philbrook Museum purchased this large Washington Coast painting from Cape Flattery, on the northern tip of the Olympic Peninsula, near Neah Bay, on the Makah Indian Reservation. This painting was including in the seminal book on Contemporary Realism, Green Woods and Crystal Waters; also the painting was part of a national traveling exhibition on the Museum's collection under the same name. “CATHEDRAL” 48" x 60" oil on canvas ____________ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1550008443662-G49FWCIHCSDVQ6B7YSDU/Brooks-Anderson-Hetch-Hetchy-painting-Principia-College-collection.jpg Commissions - "Hetch Hetchy Valley" collection Principia College, Elsah, IL Principia College, Elsah, Illinois Watson Science Building atrium second floor, Wanamaker Hall “HETCH HETCHY: REQUIEM FOR A VALLEY” 36" x 72" oil on canvas ____________ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1549995530081-HKMO6OMASIK32MV4O9F7/Brooks-Anderson-Sutter-North-Bay-Health-Plaza-installation.jpg Commissions - Sutter Health, Sutter North Bay Health Plaza Sutter Health, Sutter North Bay Health Plaza Principle office lobby area “APPROACHING HEAVEN” 36" x 48" giclée on canvas ____________ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1549995759083-AHCV4I5P2X7DB7ZMU35I/Brooks-Anderson-vineyard-painting-Private-collection-Commission-Sonoma.jpg Commissions - Private Collection, Green Valley, CA Private Collection, commissioned artwork for dining room “A PILLAR OF CLOUD” 36" x 60" oil on panel ____________ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1470847050334-RKP4W6OYNX06GP019ZC8/SpringLakeVillage_web1.jpg Commissions - Sonoma Room restaurant Spring Lake Village, Senior Care Facility, Santa Rosa, CA The Sonoma Room (main dining room) “THE OPEN ROAD” (on the left) 60" x 48" oil on canvas “ANGEL'S LANDING, No. 2” (on the right) 48" x 36" oil on canvas ____________ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1549997340508-FLO3D40TN8TADHYTYRPU/Brooks-Anderson-Spring-Lake-Village-collection-lobby.jpg Commissions - Spring Lake Village, Senior Care Facility, Santa Rosa, CA Front lobby of area “THE OPEN PATH” (on the left) 60" x 48" oil on canvas ____________ Main Board Room “LAND OF THE RUNNING FENCE, No. 1” (left) 24" x 36" oil on canvas “GARDEN: SEVEN CYPRESS” (right) 24" x 36" oil on canvas ____________ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1472674042725-NJ65AG8QA8UUKEX6T2BR/Nancy_quote.jpg Commissions http://www.brooksandersonart.com/home daily 1.0 2024-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1710098175962-2HZ50Z693Y26QKOBQ7EW/Brooks-Anderson-Home-page.jpg Home - HOMEPAGE - Brooks Anderson Art Welcome to this gallery of my latest and recent work. You will find the categories separated by Current, Air, Water, Land, and Abstract galleries — as well as where my work is placed in corporate, healthcare, museum, private, and public collections, and how to contact me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1710098175962-2HZ50Z693Y26QKOBQ7EW/Brooks-Anderson-Home-page.jpg Home - HOMEPAGE - Brooks Anderson Art Welcome to this gallery of my latest and recent work. You will find the categories separated by Current, Air, Water, Land, and Abstract galleries — as well as where my work is placed in corporate, healthcare, museum, private, and public collections, and how to contact me. http://www.brooksandersonart.com/available-work daily 0.75 2023-11-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1606191578538-ZMEZ48D4V6HGFTLZVG8J/Brooks-Anderson-GRAVITAS-contemporary-realism-painting.jpg Available Work - "GRAVITAS: Study" 18" x 36" oil on panel Viewers of this painting sometimes ask me, “What caused me to place a centered, hanging tree branch coming down from the top?” This is the beauty of a fresh, new view of things. I have all the elements of landscape in this composition; but it causes us to rethink, to see these typical ingredients in a new, spiritual light. This is what landscape painting should do. I will continue, though, to take down the visual notation which Nature gives me. FOR PURCHASE, PLEASE CONTACT BROOKS ANDERSON DIRECTLY: Brooks@BrooksAndersonArt.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1606191578538-ZMEZ48D4V6HGFTLZVG8J/Brooks-Anderson-GRAVITAS-contemporary-realism-painting.jpg Available Work - "GRAVITAS: Study" 18" x 36" oil on panel Viewers of this painting sometimes ask me, “What caused me to place a centered, hanging tree branch coming down from the top?” This is the beauty of a fresh, new view of things. I have all the elements of landscape in this composition; but it causes us to rethink, to see these typical ingredients in a new, spiritual light. This is what landscape painting should do. I will continue, though, to take down the visual notation which Nature gives me. FOR PURCHASE, PLEASE CONTACT BROOKS ANDERSON DIRECTLY: Brooks@BrooksAndersonArt.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1606192164068-I92IN3YSUWEP5EO2NE2H/Brooks-Anderson-Yellow-Canoe-landscape-painting.jpg Available Work - "YELLOW CANOE" 13" x 21" oil on canvas n the style of American "Luminism" of the Hudson River School II. I'm working on a few smaller works done with that Turner-esque atmosphere, reminding myself and my viewers that light--and reflection--surrounds us in this fairly dark and weighty patch we're in. This piece, in particular, espouses to a mix of the doctrines of Luminism and Turner: characterized by effects of light in landscape and a diffuse horizon line; emphasizing tranquility; close control of structure, tone, and light; and often depict calm, reflective water surrounded by a soft, hazy sky. FOR PURCHASE, PLEASE CONTACT BROOKS ANDERSON DIRECTLY: Brooks@BrooksAndersonArt.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1606192253239-K5LOYWTBWHI4OQBVLCP6/Brooks-Anderson-Tidal-Marsh-Hingham-Massachusetts-painting.jpg Available Work - "TIDAL MARSH, NO. 4" 11" x 14" oil on panel What began as a Luminist style painting of a tidal marsh in Hingham, MA, along the South Shore of Boston, turned into a full-fledged recreation of Nature itself--an emotive experience, a truly deep feeling of heaven and earth displayed on the stage of a coastal marshland. Deep colors of peach and teal accent the dialogue in this piece. FOR PURCHASE, PLEASE CONTACT BROOKS ANDERSON DIRECTLY: Brooks@BrooksAndersonArt.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1606192343089-EU8ITVJKV3WA01BOSITF/Brooks-Anderson-Angels-AboveandBelow-seascape-painting.jpg Available Work - "ANGELS: ABOVE AND BELOW" 18" x 36" oil on panel I really get to do this. I get to share and spread Light. I don’t care if I have 10 followers or 50 million, I get to put my perspective on spirituality down in paint. This one’s about immensity, transformation, and the feeling that something higher and deeper has our backs. FOR PURCHASE, PLEASE CONTACT BROOKS ANDERSON DIRECTLY: Brooks@BrooksAndersonArt.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1606192445370-ZI9IHN6OPO7R8ENDD2YA/Brooks-Anderson-Heavens-Gate-West-Marin-painting.jpg Available Work - "HEAVEN'S GATE" 48" x 36" x 1.5" oil on canvas A very poetic painting, there is a balance between the dark and light forms, the cool and warm colors, and the visual dialogue between the Monterey cypress tree in the foreground and the eucalyptus tree center stage in the distance. Dark and light, masculine and feminine, drama and peace…it’s all here. FOR PURCHASE, PLEASE CONTACT BROOKS ANDERSON DIRECTLY: Brooks@BrooksAndersonArt.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1606192570847-9KEZF47Q2CAV0R1KZCMI/Brooks-Anderson-Seven-Sisters1-Sussex-painting.jpg Available Work - "SEVEN SISTERS, NO. 1" 13" x 21" x 1.5 oil on canvas From the Sussex coastline of southeast England, there are dramatic, high limestone cliffs. I love the starkness of the blues and greens of sky and sea juxtaposed with the brilliant warm whites of the cliff just after sunrise. There is a lovely breaking up of the horizontal structure of the painting in half by the cliff’s edge dead center, giving the piece the structural makeup of square, diagonal, vertical and horizontal shapes. FOR PURCHASE, PLEASE CONTACT BROOKS ANDERSON DIRECTLY: Brooks@BrooksAndersonArt.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1606192656510-433P7CABSPW4HL6I55G4/Brooks-Anderson-Cumulus5-cloudscape-painting.jpg Available Work - "CUMULUS, NO. 5" 40" x 30" oil on canvas A beautiful combination between “painterly” and expressionistic brushstrokes, and more refined articulations of cloud and sky. There is a rhythm to this piece, between the clouds and sea, and the warm and cool colors used. FOR PURCHASE, PLEASE CONTACT BROOKS ANDERSON DIRECTLY: Brooks@BrooksAndersonArt.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1606192789801-TKSGVH65W8C8FAQA0YFU/Brooks-Anderson-Blue-Hill-Overlook1-Massachusetts-painting.jpg Available Work - "BLUE HILL OVERLOOK" 12" x 16" oil on canvas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1606192854540-LTYRX3HON0M6WEQND1EK/Brooks-Anderson-Morning-Sequence2-cloudscape-painting.jpg Available Work - "MORNING SEQUENCE, NO. 2" 36" x 24" oil on canvas The second in a series I called “Morning Sequence,” after a Beck song, these four paintings were studies of my very early morning walks in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. The northeastern city is famous for its weather, culture, food, and most of all — music; but I found the columns of clouds that would float from west to east, out over the Bay of All Saints, to be a compelling feature. That, and the agua de coco. FOR PURCHASE, PLEASE CONTACT BROOKS ANDERSON DIRECTLY: Brooks@BrooksAndersonArt.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1606192937313-S6I5WIP7HLF4PYELMFQY/Brooks-Anderson-Refuge-Oregon-Coast-painting.jpg Available Work - "REFUGE" 12" x 19" oil on canvas The drama of the Oregon Coast, with all its beauty and interplay between dark and light, salt and spray, pristine and brutal — this little gem captures it. FOR PURCHASE, PLEASE CONTACT BROOKS ANDERSON DIRECTLY: Brooks@BrooksAndersonArt.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1606193016354-NIE5X6I1E3X2C32LIBAW/Brooks-Anderson-Above-The-Vineyard-painting.jpg Available Work - "ABOVE THE VINEYARD" 14" x 18" oil on panel FOR PURCHASE, PLEASE CONTACT BROOKS ANDERSON DIRECTLY: Brooks@BrooksAndersonArt.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1606193077968-RYYKTXQ6D09QJS1F52ID/Brooks-Anderson-House-Rock-Mendocino-painting.jpg Available Work - "HOUSE ROCK" 12" x 19" oil on canvas I love how this morning on the cliffs above the ocean at Mendocino Headlands, Mendocino has come out so well as a painting: the repetition of two diagonal shapes, the interplay of dark and light, framed at the top by strong horizontal in the distance. FOR PURCHASE, PLEASE CONTACT BROOKS ANDERSON DIRECTLY: Brooks@BrooksAndersonArt.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1606193159348-KS4RP3HM52SI96TELKC5/Brooks-Anderson-Altamont1-Sonoma-landscape.jpg Available Work - "ALTAMONT, NO. 1" 36" x 36" oil on canvas FOR PURCHASE, PLEASE CONTACT BROOKS ANDERSON DIRECTLY: Brooks@BrooksAndersonArt.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1606193334894-HFZZLD1OUKUL4EV8B82U/Brooks-Anderson-Borealis5-cloudscape-painting.jpg Available Work - "BOREALIS, NO. 5" 30" x 24" oil panel A powerful painting, “Borealis, no. 5” was built up of layers of abstract underpainting, multiple colors, dark and light passages and textures—only to lead me to the final, energetic layer. FOR PURCHASE, PLEASE CONTACT BROOKS ANDERSON DIRECTLY: Brooks@BrooksAndersonArt.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1606193416906-RH1CXP3DO6R76P9DFL7G/Brooks-Anderson-Thunderhead-cloudscape-painting.jpg Available Work - "THUNDERHEAD" 30" x 24" oil on panel FOR PURCHASE, PLEASE CONTACT BROOKS ANDERSON DIRECTLY: Brooks@BrooksAndersonArt.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1606193499444-B27Z00DMANFR6PL5IQXL/Brooks-Anderson-Goose-Lake-landscape-painting.jpg Available Work - "GOOSE LAKE" 18" x 14" oil on canvas The day after witnessing a full solar eclipse in eastern Oregon, I was driving back from the life-changing sight, and saw this beautiful lake near the border of south eastern Oregon and northeastern California. There was still a feeling of aura in the sky. FOR PURCHASE, PLEASE CONTACT BROOKS ANDERSON DIRECTLY: Brooks@BrooksAndersonArt.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1606193932294-WCZYHQSDZWISU6XRR07H/anewday-delta-copy.jpg Available Work - "A NEW DAY: DELTA" 24" x 36" oil on canvas FOR PURCHASE, PLEASE CONTACT BROOKS ANDERSON DIRECTLY: Brooks@BrooksAndersonArt.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1606194163014-WY88N2YIV4TMWPCZUV8M/Brooks-Anderson-Angels-Sacramento-Delta-painting.jpg Available Work - "ANGELS: SACRAMENTO DELTA" 24" x 48" oil on canvas FOR PURCHASE, PLEASE CONTACT BROOKS ANDERSON DIRECTLY: Brooks@BrooksAndersonArt.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1606194295197-8KDOWTHRQUAW69X4UZMI/Brooks-Anderson-Hovering-Sacramento-Delta-painting.jpg Available Work - "HOVERING: SACRAMENTO DELTA" 24" x 48" oil on canvas The Sacramento Delta region of central California is a world unto its own. Couple that with the Dutch landscape tradition of the 17th Century. That’s what I explored in this series of intimate paintings of Old World light: quiet and luminous, poetic and timeless. FOR PURCHASE, PLEASE CONTACT BROOKS ANDERSON DIRECTLY: Brooks@BrooksAndersonArt.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1606194374004-G4CPQUZAQG72SLVIMALQ/Brooks-Anderson-Mount-Washington-painting.jpg Available Work - "MOUNT WASHINGTON" 12" x 18" oil on panel FOR PURCHASE, PLEASE CONTACT BROOKS ANDERSON DIRECTLY: Brooks@BrooksAndersonArt.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1606194449739-QFZCC9SRWUUJV9ZWNJA3/Brooks-Anderson-Blackhead2-Monhegan-painting.jpg Available Work - "BLACKHEAD, MONHEGAN" 11" x 14" oil on canvas A century ago, in 1916, the American iconic painter, Edward Hopper, spent four summers in succession on Monhegan Island and Ogunquit (Maine). Painting alongside Robert Henri and Rockwell Kent, Hopper completed a body of work that deconstructed and changed the surface of landscape painting. I recently studied his ouevre, his paintings from the cliffs of Monhegan. FOR PURCHASE, PLEASE CONTACT BROOKS ANDERSON DIRECTLY: Brooks@BrooksAndersonArt.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1606194538778-UQJZ87G777MTQCK66VHA/Brooks-Anderson-Sand-Beach9-Maine-painting.jpg Available Work - "SAND BEACH, NO. 9" 12" x 18" oil on panel FOR PURCHASE, PLEASE CONTACT BROOKS ANDERSON DIRECTLY: Brooks@BrooksAndersonArt.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1606194613610-9XD50SU9A4L39R8RG782/Brooks-Anderson-Black-Rock1-Massachusetts-painting.jpg Available Work - "BLACK ROCK, NO. 1" 20" x 16" oil on panel My very first painting to come from the South Shore of Boston, near the cities of Hingham, Cohasset, and Hull. There is a beauty in finding the strength in such intimate settings in New England. This painting elicits a lovely dialogue between the cool greens and blues of the sea and sky, juxtaposed with the foreground earth-tone rocks. FOR PURCHASE, PLEASE CONTACT BROOKS ANDERSON DIRECTLY: Brooks@BrooksAndersonArt.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1606194695391-E83WZ9DVF0KTK8PXEFP3/Brooks-Anderson-Black-Rock2-Massachusetts-painting.jpg Available Work - "BLACK ROCK, NO. 2" 16" x 20" oil on panel FOR PURCHASE, PLEASE CONTACT BROOKS ANDERSON DIRECTLY: Brooks@BrooksAndersonArt.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1606194822463-F7UDXCK7EXPV8FM1J385/Brooks-Anderson-Sand-Beach4-Maine-painting.jpg Available Work - "SAND BEACH, NO. 4" 12" x 19" oil panel A place that resonates with me is along the Maine coast, near the town of Stonington. There are beautiful, breadloaf-like pink granite rocks that reveal themselves at low tide. FOR PURCHASE, PLEASE CONTACT BROOKS ANDERSON DIRECTLY: Brooks@BrooksAndersonArt.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1606195293420-XN3TYJ6Q9DOPM6U6ZLLW/Brooks-Anderson-Sand-Beach5-Maine-painting.jpg Available Work - "SAND BEACH, NO. 5" 12" x 19" oil panel FOR PURCHASE, PLEASE CONTACT BROOKS ANDERSON DIRECTLY: Brooks@BrooksAndersonArt.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1606194902653-JZC6WJ3I6Q3YLX880VNM/Brooks-Anderson-Swans-Island3-Maine-painting.jpg Available Work - "SWANS ISLAND, no. 3" 19" x 12" oil on panel FOR PURCHASE, PLEASE CONTACT BROOKS ANDERSON DIRECTLY: Brooks@BrooksAndersonArt.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1606194971749-GLEHMXCE4BKDHH7WWKQ6/Brooks-Anderson-Monhegan1-Maine-painting.jpg Available Work - "MONHEGAN, no. 1" 20" x 16" oil on panel Structure, death, light, value, and color, push and pull, strong subject matter, and a continued and studied excavation into the work of Edward Hopper from 100 years ago, to the year, off the coast of Maine. His brilliantly reckless and deft sense of pushing paint around a surface still amazes me. This is my attempt in the inspiration of what he did with Blackhead Point. FOR PURCHASE, PLEASE CONTACT BROOKS ANDERSON DIRECTLY: Brooks@BrooksAndersonArt.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1606195101703-J8CUTZO4FBG7D6H9DM85/Brooks-Anderson-Monhegan2-Maine-painting.jpg Available Work - "MONHEGAN, no. 1" 16" x 20" oil on panel To visit Monhegan Island, it is less of a ferryboat ride, and more of a journey, as this island, quite removed from the Maine coast, is riddled with the ghosts of painters come and gone, strong light, and a powerful coastline - unlike anything else in Maine...with the exception of the Schoodic Peninsula. This famous red house — with Mañana Island in the background, painted by Jamie Wyeth at one time — is a sweet reminder of the island shrouded in its own mystical time and space. FOR PURCHASE, PLEASE CONTACT BROOKS ANDERSON DIRECTLY: Brooks@BrooksAndersonArt.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1606195229796-DRK6CF9YLSDZTG3MB2SC/Brooks-Anderson-Black-Rock4-Massachusetts-painting.jpg Available Work - "BLACK ROCK, NO. 2" 20" x 16" oil on panel FOR PURCHASE, PLEASE CONTACT BROOKS ANDERSON DIRECTLY: Brooks@BrooksAndersonArt.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1606195383244-DZKLRR07QRMKSI3XLBAP/Brooks-Anderson-Sand-Beach7-Maine-painting.jpg Available Work - "SAND BEACH, NO. 7" 20" x 16" oil on panel One of my favorites from the series of coastal Maine paintings, this vertical piece exhibits and very strong composition of movement, texture, cool and warm — allowing for the background islands, ocean, and sky to flatten out and in a harmonic interplay with the foreground movement. FOR PURCHASE, PLEASE CONTACT BROOKS ANDERSON DIRECTLY: Brooks@BrooksAndersonArt.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1606195453403-DU51VMYNRULNAJDT44QC/Brooks-Anderson-Sand-Beach8-Maine-painting.jpg Available Work - "SAND BEACH, NO. 8" 12" x 19" oil panel FOR PURCHASE, PLEASE CONTACT BROOKS ANDERSON DIRECTLY: Brooks@BrooksAndersonArt.com http://www.brooksandersonart.com/about/brooks-anderson-self-portrait-painting daily 0.75 2024-09-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1549989880252-4D2PT44SDC5CM6B5L1TB/brooks-anderson-artist-painting-self-portrait.jpg About Photo by Brooks Anderson http://www.brooksandersonart.com/press-1 daily 0.75 2016-08-31 http://www.brooksandersonart.com/contact daily 0.75 2020-02-11 http://www.brooksandersonart.com/new-page daily 0.75 2019-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1550332157114-ZN1FRDB9DP33OL4PQIGQ/Brooks-Anderson-Borealis5-cloudscape-painting.jpg New Page http://www.brooksandersonart.com/new-page-1 daily 0.75 2019-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5751eb8040261dca79a18d5d/1550332708052-EBKHS86676RPEGZXUVG6/Brooks-Anderson-Borealis5-cloudscape-painting.jpg New Page BOREALIS, NO. 5 30” X 24” oil on panel