Celebrating the enduring artistic legacy of Canadian painter & musician Leonard Brooks and pioneering photographer Reva Brooks across Canada and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
Selected original paintings, collages, and works on canvas. Click on any work to launch the full-screen gallery view and inquiry.
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For over five decades, Canadian painter Leonard Brooks and photographer Reva Brooks formed one of North America's most inspiring artistic partnerships. From their studio in San Miguel de Allende, they captured the vibrant spirit, light, and human dignity of Mexico while fostering an international cultural circle.
Official Canadian War Artist during WWII whose work bridged Canadian modernist traditions with the luminous color palettes of Mexico. Master of oil, watercolor, acrylic, collage, and tapestries.
EXPLORE BIOGRAPHYCelebrated internationally as one of the premier female photographers of the 20th century. Her poignant black-and-white portraits captured the human dignity and cultural soul of Mexico.
EXPLORE BIOGRAPHYI1948"Your ideas and your work have impressed me enormously... I look for the 'plastic poetry' in the object itself or said in a different way I try to seize the poetry from the object itself... because I think that poetry itself lies within the object."
II1992"The art of Leonard Brooks is undoubtedly one of the pillars of Canadian art inspired by Mexico that has most influenced the latest generations of artists whose lines of creation are based on this bridge which unites our peoples by turns so distinct and so similar."
