Le Port d'Honfleur, 1998

Philippe De Lestrange  

Philippe is a Parisian painter, self-taught It is the Impressionist movement, whose message on the beauty of nature has moved and continues to touch millions of people, which spontaneously inspired Philippe in his beginnings, in particular the great painters Monet , Renoir, Manet or Toulouse Lautrec.

Through his painting, Philippe intends less to renovate or modernize this superb movement that was Impressionism (this one is indeed the marker of a bygone era) than to transmit the emotion that he too feels when he is in front of nature, including in its human form, or in front of a civilizational work.

The Collection © created by Philippe responds, around its four main themes, to a certain need for wonder, in a world in perpetual movement Like poetry and literature to which the artist associates names with humor or gravity. of his paintings his painting is neither more, nor less, than a way of expressing reality and manifesting its beauty.It expresses, like poetry and literature, a certain need to contemplate this reality rather than to transforming, a need for newfound attention rather than frantic action.

When he paints, Philippe tries to transcribe the movement of the sea, of its waves, to describe the silence of the forest or the song of its leaves, he paints men in their most noble activities, those where they are in contact with nature, on a beach to play in the foam of the day, to admire a sunset or the reflections of water He paints them in town, he paints their towns and bows before the beauty of the constructions that they are able to imagine and achieve.

This message on beauty and human greatness is truly at the heart of Philippe's work, and his ambition is to make it accessible to as many people as possible by publishing his works.