ASHVEIL

Troy Brooks

Ashveil

2026

Oil on canvas

60.96 x 91.44 cm / 24 x 36 in

This artwork is Unique

Certificate of Authenticity included

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Troy Brooks is a Canadian painter based in Ontario and one of the most distinctive voices within the Pop Surrealist movement, known for his elongated, androgynous female figures — the “Women of Troy” — staged in film-noir-inspired, high-contrast compositions that fuse cinematic drama with visual storytelling. Entirely self-taught, he found his “teachers” in the film section of the public library, studying the light and shadow techniques of Hollywood studio photographers from the silent era through the golden age of cinema. His paintings explore identity, transformation and the contradictions of artificiality, portraying women who are, in his own words, prisoners of their own exuberance, lucid enough to perceive their own folly even as they surrender to it. His work has shown across three continents — including Paris, Berlin, London, New York, Los Angeles and Sydney — and is represented by galleries such as Corey Helford Gallery, Jonathan LeVine Gallery, James Freeman Gallery and 19 Karen Contemporary Artspace.

Ashveil brings Brooks’ signature “Women of Troy” into a scene shrouded, as its title suggests, in ash and veiled concealment — an atmosphere of aftermath or ritual rendered in his customary spot-lit, high-contrast palette. The painting’s veiled heroine reads as another of his lucid prisoners of their own exuberance, caught at a decisive moment of transformation, her identity as much obscured as revealed by the haze that surrounds her.

To collect Ashveil is to own an oil on canvas from a self-taught Canadian painter whose cinematic eye — trained not in art school but in the film archives of a public library — has carried his “Women of Troy” into galleries across three continents, from Corey Helford in Los Angeles to James Freeman in London.