Brooke Borcherding

Brooke is a full time award winning artist, working out of Wallingford in Seattle. Her paintings focus on innovation, aesthetics, place and perception.  With a background in plein air (on site) landscape painting, she has gained an intuitive affinity for color and dynamic composition.   Universal beauty and an art for the people have influenced her deconstructed style of painting to stimulate our human senses.   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 the audience to enjoy getting lost in.  Although most of Brooke’s work is very colorful, she has also recently been experimenting in more subtle monochromatic tones.

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 has not attended any workshops.  By a ravenous practice of observation and looking at a lot of art, 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.

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.  She is nationally and internationally collected and shows at galleries in Washington, California, and Oregon.  If you live in the Seattle area you may also find her work in various local artwalks.

When Brooke is not making art you can find her at one of Seattle’s many niche locations for pinball.  She competes in weekly and regional tournaments.