Statement

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.

Bio

Brooke is a full time award winning artist working out of Wallingford in Seattle WA.

She began painting in high school 18 years ago in Southern California and earned a BFA in painting from the University of Oregon in 2010.  She 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.

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 fieled, earning 3rd place on Whidbey island’s 2023 plein air paintout, 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.

Please follow her work on Instagram or Facebook            @brookeborcherdingfineart

 

EDUCATION:

2010            Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting, University of Oregon 

GALLERY REPRESENTATION:

GRAY SKY GALLERY Seattle, WA

RIVERSEA GALLERY Astoria, OR

SMITH & VALLEE GALLERY, Bow/Edison, WA

WHITE BIRD GALLERY Cannon Beach, OR

JGO GALLERY Bainbridge Island, Winslow WA

Awards:

2023

  • 3rd Place, Whidbey Island Plein Air Paintout, Coupeville WA

  • Honorable Mention, Edmonds Plein Air, Cole Gallery, WA

2022

  • Honorable Mention, Edmonds Plein Air, Cole Gallery, WA

  • Honorable Mention, Whidbey Is. Plein Air Paintout, Coupeville WA

  • Best Landscape, Richland Plein Air Paintout, Gallery at the Park, WA

2021

  • Honorable Mention, Whidbey Plein Air Paintout, Coupeville WA

2020

  • 2nd place, Art in Miniature, Mival Gallery Mercer Island WA

  • Best in Show, “Back to Redmond”, Virtual Art Show, WA

2019

  • Juror’s Award, Renton Annual Art Fest

  • 3rd Place Shoreline Annual Art Fest

  • Juror’s Award for “Afternoon at Cape Disappointment”, Renton annual Art Show

2018

  • Best Oil or Acrylic Painting, Carmel Plein Air Festival, Carmel CA

2017

  • Best Non-Traditional Plein Air, Boulder Plein air Festival, Boulder CO

  • 3rd Place Associate Arts of Ocean Shores Fine Art Juried Show, Ocean Shores WA

2016

  • Selected artist in Southwest Art Magazine's 21 under 31 annual selection, August editorial

  • Best Plein Air, Plein Air & More Festival, Cannon Beach OR

  • Best In Show, Americana and Independence Day Show, Tsuga Fine Art, Bothell WA

2015

  • Honorable Mention, Miniatures, Kenmore Art Show, Kenmore WA (Juried by Irina Kirienko Milton)

2014   

  • Award of Merit, Issaquah 1st Annual Plein Air Paintout, WA

  • Yamhill Lavender Festival Honorable Mention, (Juried by Ramona Youngquist), Oregon

2013   

  • Beauty of the Northwest Honorable Mention, Gallery North, Edmonds

2012   

  • City Scene Honorable Mention, Hillsboro Plein Air Paintout, Walters Cultural Arts Center, Hillsboro, OR (Juried by Eric Jacobson)

  • Juror’s Award of Distinction, Umpqua Plein Air Paintout, Umpqua Valley Arts Association, Roseburg, OR (Juried by Thomas Kitts)

2011    

  • Honorable Mention, SCAL 81st Annual Exhibition, Contemporary Landscape Painters of California, (Juried by Scott A. Shields)

  • Juror’s Choice Award (George Billis), National Juried Exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts, Lynchburg, VA

2010    

  • Juror’s Choice Award (Christine L. Sundt), Mayor’s Art Show, Jacob’s Gallery, Eugene, OR

2009    

  • Best in Show, Pacific Northwest Art Annual (juried by founder Adell McMillan, Kelly Rauer of Portland Art Center), University of Oregon, Eugene, OR

Juried Exhibitions:

2022 Plein air Washington Annual Juried Exhibit, Cole Gallery, Edmonds WA

2022 / 2023 Schack Art Center Annual Juried Shows, Everett WA

2020-2023 Anacortes Annual Juried Shows, WA

21-23 Edmonds Annual Juried Shows, WA

2020 Little Gems, virtual show via Scott Milo Gallery, Anacortes WA

2019 Structural Elements, American Art Co, Tacoma WA

2019 Renton Annual Juried Art Show, WA

2019 Era of Living, Plein air Exhibit, University House Issaquah WA

2019/18      Carmel Annual Plein Air Competition, Carmel CA

2019 Pets on Parade, Schack Art Center, Everett WA

2014-18     Plein air Washington Annual Juried Exhibits, the American Art Co, Tacoma, WA

2018      Bemis Annual Spring Show, Seattle WA

2018/17     Ocean Shores Annual Juried Show, Associated Arts of Ocean Shores, WA

2017/16     CVG Statewide Annual Juried Show, Collective Visions Gallery, Bremerton, WA

2017     4th Annual Living Mark Exhibition, Verum Ultimum Gallery, Portland, OR

2016    Santa Fe Plein Air Festival, InArt Gallery, Santa Fe NM

2014/15    Call of the Clouds & NW Landscapes , ArtEast, Issaqua WA

2012    Pacific Northwest Plein Air 2012, Columbia Center For the Arts, Hood River, OR

2012    Richeson 75 International Small Works Exhibition, Kimberly, WI

2011    National Juried Exhibition (Juror George Billis), Academy of Fine Arts, Lynchburg, VA

2010   GATA (Gallery at the Airport), Eugene Airport, Eugene, OR

2010   Mayor’s Art Show, Jacobs Gallery, Eugene, OR

2010 Process Impact: Open Activist Art, Eagle Art Gallery, Murray State University, KY

2010    National Association of Women Artists Small Works Open Exhibition, N.A.W.A. gallery, New York, NY

2009/10    Pacific Northwest Art Annual Exhibition, Adell McMillan Gallery, Eugene, OR

2009/10    Open Studios Art Tour, Downtown Initiative for the Visual Arts, Eugene, OR  

2009    California Open Exhibition (juried by Michael Zakian-Director of Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Malibu), TAG gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Group Shows:

2021-PRESENT

  • Gallery artist at Gray Sky Gallery, Pioneer Square Seattle WA

2019-PRESENT

  • Gallery artist at RiverSea Gallery, Astoria OR

2016-PRESENT

  • Gallery artist at White Bird Gallery, Cannon Beach OR

2015- PRESENT            

  • River Gallery Spring & Fall shows,  Mount Vernon WA

2014-2016

  • Alki Arts, Seattle WA

2016

  • Lynwood Convention Center WA

2014            

  • Community Arts Program, Design Center, Seattle WA

  • 30x30 Challenge, Avanti Art and Design, Seattle WA

  • "Urban Energy”, Cole Gallery, Edmonds, WA

  • Testing the Waters” Abstractions, Cole Gallery, Edmonds, WA

2013            

  • State Parks Exhibit Plein Air Washington, American Art Company, Tacoma WA

  • 30x30 Challenge, Avanti Art and Design, Seattle WA

2011            

  • Miniatures, Vistra Framing Outlet, Eugene, OR

  • Oregon Wine Country, David Joyce Gallery, Lane Community College, Eugene, OR

2010            

  • Member Show, Oregon Arts Alliance, Eugene, OR

  • Plein Air painters of Lane County, Flying Turtle Gallery, Oakridge, OR

2009   Plein Air painters of Eugene/Springfield Showings: Emerald Art Center, City Hall, Eugene Public Library, Sylvan Ridge winery, OR

2008 - 2010         Student work group shows, LaVerne Krauss Gallery, University of Oregon, OR

Participation/Memberships:
2013-present   Member of Plein Air Painters of Washington PAWA
2009-2012       Plein Air Painters of Lane County member/participant
2009 - 2011      Children’sart workshops at Emerald Art Center, Springfield, OR
2008 - 2011       Gallery host, Studio Art Tour committee member of DIVA, Eugene, OR


Private Collections:
2009    Walk Across Coburg Road, Pacific NW Art Annual winner for the University of Oregon permanent collection, OR
2008    Eugene Landscape, University of Oregon permanent collection, OR


Publications:

  • Acrylic Painting editorial, Plein Air Magazine Oct/Nov 2020

  • American Art Collector editorials “Winter Wonderland”, “Urban Paintings” Issue February 2019

  • What Is Plein Air Painting? Featured Artist, Issaquah Highlands Connections, Community News, July 2014 OutdoorPainter.com, "3 Paintings in 90 Minutes: One Artist's Exercise", Sep 2013 http://www.outdoorpainter.com/news/three-paintings-in-90-minutes-one-artists-exercise.html

  • Washington En Plein Air Volume IV http://www.blurb.com/b/4638742-washington-en-plein-air

  • “A Beautiful Day in Oregon” Cover image for Oregon Watershed Councils Atlas of Accomplishments, 2011

  • “Impressions of the Ordinary”, Eugene Weekly, Art Shorts, June 23, 2011 http://www.eugeneweekly.com/2011/06/23/artsshorts.html

  • “Passport to Art: Artists open their studios for DIVA”. Eugene Weekly, Visual Arts Section, October 15, 2009. (http://www.eugeneweekly.com/2009/10/15/visart1.html)