Brooke Gassiot is a Seattle-area based artist who studied art at The University of Texas at Austin and in Tuscany, Italy. She has shown her art internationally and her commissioned work hangs in commercial and private collections. She helped found an artist run non-profit called Icosa Gallery, that continues to thrive today. After raising her children as a single mother and surviving breast cancer, Brooke now lives on an island with her partner where she savors the quiet in her studio to continuously paint.