Brooke is a full time award winning artist at the age of 32, working out of Capitol Hill Seattle. The Kaleidoscopic landscapes of Brooke Borcherding’s recent work are a contemporary take on a venerable genre.  Brilliantly colored blocks of color cascade across the canvas, creating a wonderfully pixelated image of urban or rural environments that shimmer with dynamic energy.  Borcherding says these “deconstructions” aim to “shed light on the beauty of ordered chaos.”

Brooke began painting in high school and earned a BFA in painting from the University of Oregon in 2010.  However, she considers herself a self-taught landscape painter, as she practiced from nature with a prolific output and painting with other plein air peers. Universal beauty and an art for the people have influenced her deconstructed style of painting to stimulate our human senses. Her current style of painting utilizes an analytical way of breaking up a scene into blocks of color and putting them back together. By a ravenous practice of observation, looking at a lot of art, and abstaining from taking any painting workshops, she has been able to develop her own unique style that is not quite categorizable.  People have described Brooke’s paintings as the modern take on pointillism, comparable to cubism and Cezanne, or a hand made version of blown up computer pixels.

This engaging process is hopefully equally interesting for the audience to enjoy getting lost in as it is create.

Over the past 8 years as an exhibiting artist Brooke has most recently been awarded a prestigious prize for best oil/acrylic painting at the 2018 Carmel Plein Air Competition.  In 2019 she was featured in American Art Collector Magazine and in 2016 Southwest Art Magazine selected her as one of the 21 artists under 31 to watch. She is nationally and internationally collected and shows in galleries along the West Coast – Washington, California and Oregon.  If you live in the Seattle area you may also find her work in various businesses who participate in neighborhood art walks.