Brooke Borcherding, Wetlands in the Rain, 2022, Acrylic plein air, 24 x 36 x 1.5 in

Brooke is a full-time award-winning artist working out of Wallingford, Seattle WA. Her acrylic landscape paintings depict familiar places in her own innovative and deconstructive technique using broken color mark making. She paints both en plein air (on site) and from photos in the studio, aiming to capture the beauty of everyday places with a style to stimulate our perception. People have described her work as a contemporary take on Cezanne's cubism or a modern impressionism, which enables the viewer to engage and investigate a scene further. Brooke has been painting almost 20 years and earned her BFA from the University of Oregon in 2010. Although she obtained an art degree, she considers herself a self-taught artist when it comes to landscape painting, as most of her "brush miles" come from a prolific output, working from observation and abstaining from any landscape workshops. Over the past decade as an exhibiting artist she has become nationally collected, shows in galleries on the West Coast and has earned numerous awards for her vibrant work. Last summer she took home 1st place at the 2025 Whidbey Island plein air paintout.