About the Artist

Pegan Brooke makes paintings inspired by her studio environs on the Pacific Coast in Bolinas, California and in her San Francisco Studio, near the Bay. She follows a parallel practice of creating video/poems shot by the Aven River in Pont-Aven, France and on the Inland Seto Sea in Japan. These video/poems inform and inspire her ideas and future paintings.

Light falling on water, as visual metaphor for the fleeting quality of experience, is a central theme of her work. She thinks of her paintings as closely related to nature and certain forms of architecture. It is her desire that through the paintings, she might create a space for the viewer in which they might slow down, in the hope of encouraging the viewer’s own thoughts and feelings, and to contemplate what is important to them.

Brooke has exhibited extensively, and her work is owned by the Guggenheim Museum, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Des Moines Art Museum; the Berkeley Art Museum (BAMPFA); the Swig Collection, San Francisco; and the Anderson Collection, Menlo Park, California. Her work has been widely reviewed, including in Art in AmericaThe New York TimesArtweekExaminer.com, and Art Ltd. Magazine.

 
Still from video “Trying to Sit Still for 5 minutes”Aven River, Pont Aven, France

Still from video “Trying to Sit Still for 5 minutes”

Aven River, Pont Aven, France

San Francisco studio

San Francisco studio