38 – Jay Brooks Oil Painting – Landscape

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Jay Brooks Oil Painting-Landscape

Medium: Oil Paint on Canvas  7″ x 4.5″

Framed Dimensions: 11.5″ x 9.5″

In 1988, Brooks received his B.F.A. from Carnegie-Mellon University and in 1990 he received his M.F.A. from Columbia University. Being removed from his familiar bucolic surroundings, Brooks studied and painted the industrial environments of Pittsburgh and New York City.

After teaching art in New York City, Brooks moved back to upstate NY in 1993. Here, Brooks is surrounded by countless varieties of scenes from around the northeastern US. His paintings include a variety of images from depictions of the New England shore to the countryside and small towns of upstate New York.

Jay Brooks is currently showing at the River Gallery in Narrowsburg, NY. Brooks has also shown regularly in the Chelsea area of New York City, Lambertville, NJ, Cody, WY, Rochester, NY, and Sullivan County NY. In 2001, Brooks entered the Arts for the Parks competition in Jackson Hole, Wyoming and had four paintings in the top 100. In 2017, 2018 and 2019 Brooks was a participant in the Cape Ann Plein Air competition and Plein Air Easton 2018, 2019 and 2020. Brooks is also a member of the Salmagundi Club in New York City. Although Brooks main interest in the landscape resides primarily in the scenery of upstate NY, he has also painted scenes in the American West, Puerto Rico, the Austrian and German Alps, Northern Italy, Ireland and the out- back and rain forests of Australia.

Learn more about Jay Brooks here.

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