HRH Brooke Major

American born artist from Atlanta, Géorgia, USA.

American artist born 1979 and native of Atlanta, GA, Brooke Major has been living and working as a professional artist and sharing her time between the USA (Georgia) and France for the past 20 years. As a child, Brooke has always been top of her class in drawing and painting, as well as an avid equestrian, which led her to move to Normandy to breed and raise them for the sport of showjumping.
 
She moved initially to Paris to study political science at an American university, but felt herself drawn more towards the arts and followed auditing classes at the Beaux Arts school in Paris. Her political science studies led her to work for over a year and a half as an intern at the US Embassy in Paris.
 
Following her two childhood passions, art and horses, Brooke moved to Normandy and started her dream of breeding showjumpers and set up her art studio in a grain loft in a 18th century farmhouse on the beach where she creates her work and raises her horses. 
 
Brooke sculpts oil paint, using pallet knives challenging both techniques of painting and sculpting and exemplifying light and shadow. She chooses all of her subjects from her childhood experiences: travelling, horses and architecture. Brooke also depicts her everyday life in her recent subject of her landscapes of the typical Normand countryside.
 
Artist Statement:
 
I paint because I need to. I paint what my hand wants to paint.



Gallery representation

Whiteside Art Gallery - Cashiers, North Carolina USA

Thomas Deans Fine Art - Atlanta, Georgia USA

La Bottega Gallery - Laguna Beach, California, USA

Artists | Bee Street Gallery - Dallas and forth worth Texas

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Schoonover gallery - Steamboat Springs, Colorado

Karen Anderer - Lancaster, Pennsylvania

CHAUVET Arts - Nashville, Tennessee

Ella Richardson Fine Art, Charleston, SC

Katerina Morgan Horse Polo Art: Argentina

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Abeson Gallery: Tulsa, Oklahoma

Awards and distinctions

2020: Runner Up: Selected by Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year on 29 November 2020 out of over 1500 artists worldwide on this portrait drawn of Russell Tovey, UK Actor

2019: Médaille prix du public - Musée de Saint Frajou

2019: Prize of the city Champagne sur Seine for the Biennale of Champagne sur Seine

2018: Grand Prix du Salon Clément Bayer

2017: Prix du Jury catégorie: peinture, Artfest, Clayton Georgia, USA

2017: Honorable mention, ADAP, Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson Airport

2017: Bas Relief peinture: Le Franc et Bourgeois

2017: Shortlisted for Appalachia Now, Applachia Art Museum, Highlands, North Carolina

2012: Prix du Salon, Salon de l’art contemporain de La Rochelle

2010: Salons Arts Inter: médaille d’or: Thonon les Bains

2010: Painting Prize honorable mention, Aigle de Nice, Menton, France

2009: Salons Arts Inter: Medaille d’argent: Lyon

2009: Medaille de Vermeil: Chambery la Ravoire

2008: Silver Medal, Salon des Independants, Thonon les Bains, France

2008: Pictura Salon: Prix du jeune talent Menton, France

2008: Salons Arts Inter: Medaille de Bronze: L’argentiere la Bessee

2007: Bronze Medal, Salon des Independants: Argentiere la Bessee, France

2006 Vermeil Medal: La Ravoire: Salon d’art International Chambery

Exhibitions

2023

Thomas Deans Fine Art Group Show: Spotlight Artist: June -August

Whiteside Art Gallery Cashiers NC

Karen Anderer Fine Art, Lancaster PA

Chauvet Fine Art: Nashville Tennessee

Exhibit by Aberson, Tulsa OK

Adams Gallery, Austin, TX

Bee Street Gallery, Dallas and Fort Worth TX

Schoonover Gallery, Steamboat Springs CO

Ella Walton Richardson Gallery, Charleston SC

La Bottega Gallery, Laguna Beach CA

2022

Thomas Dean Fine Art Gallery, Atlanta Georgia, USA

Whiteside Art Gallery, Cashiers NC

Marly le Roi (78) Solo Show :Cultural Center Jean Vilar

Rollin Gallery, Rouen France

La Bottega Gallery , Laguna Beach CA Exposition Personelle Dec 2022- Fevrier 2023

2021

11-14 Feburary: Art Up Lille Art Fair

45e Salon de peinture et Sculpture de Montigny April 17-25, 2021

51e salon des arts : Cholet 10-17 Octobre

Art Shopping Deauville : 30oct- 1 Nov

Group Show: Whiteside Art Gallery: Cashiers North Carolina, USA

53e salon de peinture du Leon: Landivisiau 21 Octobre - 19 Decembre

2020

Salon d’Hiver Saint Rémy from 14 til 16 February 2020

Salon de Peinture Saint Mammès

Chateau de Gratot: Solo Show: Coutances from the 30 June 2020 to 20 Sept 2020

62e Salon des Beaux Arts de Cormeilles en Parisis October 15-31, 2020

Grand Prix de peinture D.Jacobs from à la Garde

45e Salon de peinture et Sculpture de Montigny 17-25 April 2021

2019

Galerie Duchoze

Galerie de l’Ecrin, Honfleur France - en permanence

Galerie Saint Pierre, Touques - en permanence

Arts Design Gallery, Paris

Galerie Rollin in Rouen

Musee de Peinture in Saint Frajou, Group Show, Saint Frajou

Salon des Beaux Arts de la Lorraine: Thionville

Biennale de Champagne sur Seine

Exposition Mains d'art Saint Michel de Chavaignes

Luxembourg Art Fair 5-8 December 2019

2018

Salon des Artistes Francais, Grand Palais, Paris, France

Salon Rene Clement Bayer

Galerie Rob van Rijn, Maastricht Holland

Galerie Duchoze, Rouen, France

Anne Jacobs Fine Art, Highlands NC August

Sedgewick Gallery, Atlanta Ga

Jeanne Chisholm Fine Art, Wellington, Florida

Gallery C, Raleigh NC, USA

2017

New York Art Expo

Young Horse World Championship Lanaken, Belgium

Be you Art Show, Menton, France

Zee Art, Strasbourg, France

Sept 2017- February 2018, Gallery C, Raleigh North Carolina

Sala de Fruits, atelier à Barfleur

Anne Jacobs Fine Art, Highlands NC August

Jeanne Chisholm Fine Art, Wellington, Florida

2016

Zee Art, Strasbourg, France

Sala de Fruits, atelier à Barfleur

Anne Jacobs Fine Art, Highlands NC August

Sedgewick Gallery, Atlanta Ga

2015

Zee Art, Strasbourg, France

Sala de Fruits, atelier à Barfleur

Anne Jacobs Fine Art, Highlands NC August

Jeanne Chisholm Fine Art, Wellington, Florida

2014

Univers’Art, Le Mans, France

Art Anima, Paris & Caen, France événement durant les Jeux Equestres Mondiaux

Zee Art, Strasbourg, France

La Galerie de Tourgeville, Tourgeville, France

Anne Jacobs Fine Art, Highlands NC August



2013

Hotel de Monteffard, Sees, France

Zee Art, Strasbourg, France

2012

Prix du Salon, Salon de l’art contemporain de La Rochelle

Hotel de Monteffard, Sees, France

Zee Art, Strasbourg, France

The Artists Galerie, Arcachon, France

Galerie Annie Wable, Lille, France

Univers’Art, Le Mans, France

Grand Marche d’Art Contemporain (GMAC) Paris, France

2011

Hotel de Monteffard, Sees, France

Galerie Annie Wable, Lille, France

La Galerie de Tourgeville, Tourgeville, France

2010

1st Prize Painting, Aigle de Nice, Menton, France

La Galerie de Tourgeville, Tourgeville, France

Galerie Annie Wable, Lille, France

Univers’Art, Le Mans, France

Galerie Univers des peintres, Honfleur, France

2009

Arts Inter, Lyon, France - Médaille d'argent

Galerie Univers des peintres, Honfleur, France

La Galerie de Tourgeville, Tourgeville, France

Univers’Art, Le Mans, France

2008

Salon des Independants, Thonon les Bains - Médaille d'argent

Galerie Marine, Honfleur, France

La Galerie de Tourgeville, Tourgeville, France

Momus Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA

Galerie Univers des peintres, Honfleur, France

2007

Salon des Independants: Argentiere la Bessee, - Médaille de bronze

Galerie Marine, Honfleur, France

La Galerie de Tourgeville, Tourgeville, France

Momus Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2006

La Ravoire: Salon d’art International Chambéry - Médaille de Vermeil

Galerie Marine, Honfleur, France

La Galerie de Tourgeville, Tourgeville, France

Galerie Art Espace 83, La Rochelle, France

Momus Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2005

La Galerie de Tourgeville, Tourgeville, France

Castles and Historical monuments exhibitions

Chateau de Creully, Creully, France

Chateau de Martinvast, Martinvast, France

Chateau de Fomtaine Henry, Fontaine Henry, France

Monastery of Deux Jumeaux, Deux Jumeaux, France

Notre Dame de Portbail, Portbail, France

Chapelle Saint Nicolas, Argentan, France

Chateau d’Isigny, Isigny s/ Mer

Chateau de Torigni, Torigni sur Vire, France

Auction houses:

Rossini, Druout, Paris, France

Artcurial, Deauville, France

 

 

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