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.
Galleries where to see my paintings
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
2006
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Vermeil Medal: La Ravoire: Salon d’art International Chambery
2007
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Bronze Medal, Salon des Independants: Argentiere la Bessee, France
2008
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Silver Medal, Salon des Independants, Thonon les Bains, France
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Pictura Salon: Prix du jeune talent Menton, France
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Salons Arts Inter: Medaille de Bronze: L’argentiere la Bessee
2009
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Salons Arts Inter: Medaille d’argent: Lyon
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Medaille de Vermeil: Chambery la Ravoire
2010
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Salons Arts Inter: médaille d’or: Thonon les Bains
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Young Talent Prize, Aigle de Nice, Menton, France
2012
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Prix du Salon, Salon de l’art contemporain de La Rochelle
2017
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Prix du Jury catégorie: peinture, Artfest, Clayton Georgia, USA
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Honorable mention, ADAP, Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson Airport
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Bas Relief peinture: Le Franc et Bourgeois
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Shortlisted for Appalachia Now, Applachia Art Museum, Highlands, North Carolina
2018
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Grand Prix du Salon Clément Bayer
2019
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Médaille prix du public - Musée de Saint Frajou
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Prize of the city Champagne sur Seine for the Biennale of Champagne sur Seine
2020
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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
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