Pegan Brooke makes paintings inspired by her studio environs in Bolinas, California and follows a parallel practice of creating video/poems shot by the Aven River in Pont-Aven, France. She also maintains a studio in San Francisco.

Light falling on water as visual metaphor for the fleeting quality of experience is a central theme of the work. She relates her work to nature and architecture in her desire, through the paintings, to create a space for the viewer to contemplate. Brooke has exhibited extensively, and her work is owned by the Guggenheim Museum, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Des Moines Art Museum; the Berkeley Art Museum (BAMPFA); the Swig Collection, San Francisco; and the Anderson Collection, Menlo Park, California. Her work has been widely reviewed, including in Art in America, The New York Times, Artweek, Examiner.com, and Art Ltd. Magazine.