MAJOR // 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.
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“I paint because I need to. I paint what my hand wants to paint.”
Following her two childhood passions, art and horses, Brooke moved to Normandy and started her dream of breeding show-jumpers 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: traveling, horses and architecture. Brooke also depicts her everyday life in her recent subject of her landscapes of the typical Normand countryside.
Bas-Relief Influence
One of Brooke’s more recent art collections – created using sculpted titanium white oil paint on canvas – reflects her love of not only grey horses, but also French and antique architecture. She says the bas-relief found on the walls of cathedrals, castles and monuments have been of great influence on this collection as it inspired her to create paintings that are essentially transportable bas-relief sculpture
“This technique is a mixture of sculpture and painting, which I started at first by scraping in the images into a very thick layer of titanium white oil paint. I gradually changed the way I applied the paint, creating thickness to produce light and shadow. I mix the paint in a large container with a paint mixer, adding turpentine and a drying agent for oil paint to allow for the paint to dry quicker (two months instead of four to five months). I use palette knives, sculpting tools, and sometimes cutlery to make these images and I work in an enclosed area with natural sunlight or natural light lamps.”
MAIN 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
La Bottega Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
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