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Marie-Christine Maitre de Tarragon
 
  • Educated in France at the private boarding school St. Alyre Clermont Ferrand (Puy de Dome, France)
  • Prep school at the Holy Child of Jesus in Neuilly sur Seine (Paris, France)
    Baccalaureat with honors section literature and philosophy
  • Two years at the University of Paris Vincennes in psychology (Vincennes, France)
  • Two years at the University of Utah in sculpture department (Salt Lake City, Utah, USA)
  • Two years at the University of Pittsburg in art department (Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, USA)
  • Two years at Bellarmine College under Bob Lockhart (Louisville, Kentucky, USA)
  • Attended numerous seminars at the Artist School of Scottsdale, Arizona, USA with Jerry Cox, Grant Speed, Stanley Bleinfeld, Veryl Goodnight, and others.
  • With art as her passion, her extensive travels around the world continue to inform her creations.
  • The architectural and interior restoration of her ancestral castle, dating from the XIV century, which is on the list of historical monuments, (www.CHATEAU DE PARTHEY.COM) is a constant on going process which has both inspired and energized her.
  • Marie-Christine has been creating an extensive body of work held by collectors in France, Japan, and the USA. Bronzes, outdoors life size sculptures, and bas-relief (classical trumeaux), pencil drawings, oils, and murals one on silk.
  • She has a permanent installation Louisville KY, with twelve life size horse heads in a fountain setting.
  • She has exhibited in Louisville, Kentucky, Kentucky Horse Park, Tennessee, in the upstate and foothills of the Carolinas with several one woman-shows, the Historical Museum and the Center for the Arts in Aiken, SC.
  • She is represented by Red Clover Gallery in Landrum, SC.
 

Press:

Oldham era KY 90
Courrier Journal KY 90
Channel TV 4,7 KY
Tryon Bulletin NC 04, 06
Channel TV 7 SC
South Carolina Homes and Gardens SC 08, 09

Associations:

NSS
MAC (Greenville SC)
Tryon Painters and Sculptors
AAEA
Polk County Chamber of Commerce
Red Clover Gallery SC