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

Le Prince  - Charleston, South Carolina

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Katerina Morgan Horse Polo Art: Argentina
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Awards

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

Exhibitions

2005
La Galerie de Tourgeville, Tourgeville, France
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
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
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
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
2010
  • Young Talent Prize, Aigle de Nice, Menton, France
  • La Galerie de Tourgeville, Tourgeville, France
  • Paul Robinson fine art, Atlanta Ga
  • Galerie Annie Wable, Lille, France
  • Univers’Art, Le Mans, France
  • Galerie Univers des peintres, Honfleur, France
2011
  • Hotel de Monteffard, Sees, France
  • Galerie Annie Wable, Lille, France
  • La Galerie de Tourgeville, Tourgeville, 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
  • Paul Robinson fine art, Atlanta Ga
  • Univers’Art, Le Mans, France
  • Grand Marche d’Art Contemporain (GMAC) Paris, France
2013
  • Hotel de Monteffard, Sees, France
  • Zee Art, Strasbourg, France
  • Paul Robinson fine art, Atlanta Ga
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
  • Paul Robinson fine art, Atlanta Ga
2015
  • Zee Art, Strasbourg, France
  • Paul Robinson fine art, Atlanta Ga
  • Sala de Fruits, atelier à Barfleur
  • Anne Jacobs Fine Art, Highlands NC August
2016
  • Zee Art, Strasbourg, France
  • Sala de Fruits, atelier à Barfleur
  • Anne Jacobs Fine Art, Highlands NC August
  • Sedgewick Gallery, Atlanta Ga
  • Jeanne Chisholm Fine Art, Wellington, Florida
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
2018
  • Salon des Artistes Francais, Grand Palais, Paris, France
  • Salon Rene Clement Bayer
  • Sala de Fruits, atelier à Barfleur
  • 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
2019
  • Galerie Duchoze
  • Galerie de l’Ecrin, Honfleur France - en permanence
  • Galerie Saint Pierre, Touques - en permanence
  • Arts Design Gallery, Paris
  • Galerie l'Est, Paris
  • Galerie Rollin in Rouen
  • Musee de Peinture, 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
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

  • 30e Salon de peinture de Benouville

2021

  • 11-14 Feburary: Art Up Lille Art Fair

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

  • 30e Salon de peinture de Benouville in May 2021

  • Chateau de la Foret: Solo Show, Livry Gargan 10-28 Mars 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

  • Marly le Roi (78) Solo Show :Cultural Center Jean Vilar
2022

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

  • Rollin Gallery, Rouen France

  • Permanent representation: Whiteside Art Gallery, Cashiers North Carolina
  • 5 avril-24 avril : Exposition personelle au Chateau de la Foret: Livry Gargan
Castles and Historical monuments exhibitions include:
  • 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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