Brooke Major is an American artist born in 1979 and native of Atlanta, GA, has been living and working as a professional artist and sharing her time between the USA 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 show jumping. She moved initially to Paris to study Communications, but felt herself drawn more towards the arts and decided to attend classes at the Beaux Arts school in Paris. Her 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. Brooke set up her art studio in a grain loft in a 18th century farmhouse on the beach. There, she creates her work and raises her horses. 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 sculptures. “I have always wanted to be a painter and was inspired by the Renaissance, Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and most of all, the Dadaists.Their careers and lives were always something that was worth reading about, and seeing we only have one life to live, I decided to become an artist, too. I paint because I need to. I paint what my hand wants to paint." 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. "I choose to only do things that I love, making sure that I live life to the fullest."