With the palette knife as her tool and oil paint as her medium, Brooks uses layering and scraping techniques to develop textural  & organic paintings that engage the viewer on many levels.  Although no painting suggests a particular place, each one invites the viewer to reflect through the unconfined imagery.  Brooks' subject matter ranges from ethereal interpretations of landscapes to the soothing simplicity of abstract minimalism. “I love to experiment with loose representational and organic forms, as I recreate an array of nature’s colorways.  Being presented with a blank canvas is most exciting to me because it is then that my palette knife, my hands and my ideas have the fewest restrictions.”  Using silver leaf in collage application introduces a smooth, shiny component that adds to the complexity of her artwork.