JACK LESTRADE’S BIOGRAPHY (Watercolor and oil painter) JACK LESTRADE was born in South West France, in Gascony. He has always been attracted to traveling to special places to do what he likes the most, painting. Self-taught, he spent five years in Canada and more than forty years in the United States of America. He became well established as an internationally respected watercolor artist. (He paints also in oil). Jack was an A.O.A. (Artist of America)"MASTER" in Denver, Colorado, having exhibited in their annual, now defunct national art show for 16 years. He has shown at the "GILCREASE MUSEUM" in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the "NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN" in New York City, the “NATIONAL ACADEMY OF WESTERN ART” (NAWA) in Oklahoma City, the "COLORADO HISTORY MUSEUM" of Denver, Colorado, the “GREAT AMERICAN ARTISTS” show in Cincinnati, Ohio and has been published in several nationally known art magazines such as "AMERICAN ARTIST", "ARTISTS OF THE ROCKIES AND THE GOLDEN WEST ", "SOUTHWEST ART","WESTERN ART DIGEST", "FOCUS", as well as being featured in four watercolor books published by NORTH LIGHT Books Publishing Co. in the U.S. and by QUARTO PUBLISHING in England on the Art of Watercolor Painting. He has participated in numerous "one-man shows" and his work is in many public and private collections around the world. Jack and his pianist, organist, singer and song writer wife Judy BLAIR, reside most of the year in the Lot region in South West France, dividing their time between France and the United States. He is represented in Carmel, California by "CARMEL FINE ART GALLERY", in Chicago, Illinois by "STERNBERG GALLERIES, in Scottsdale, Arizona by the BRENNEN COLLECTION GALLERY, in Santa Fe, New Mexico by “NEDRA MATTEUCCI GALLERIES". He is a member of the "C.A.A." (Carmel Art Association) in California, having lived in Carmel for over 20 years. He is also a member of “Artists' Fellowship”of New York City, and was a member of the “Arts et Lettres de France”, an international cultural association for whom he showed his paintings for the first time in France ( Montauban, and Toulouse) from 2004 to 2007, winning a prize and a silver medal. He belongs to “LA MAISON des ARTISTES"< www.artistescontemporains.org >. He is listed at the famous "DROUOT COTATION"< www.drouot-cotation.org >. More of his work may be seen on < www.google.com > by typing Jack LESTRADE artist. Galleries representing him in the United States are showing some of his work on their web sites. He can be reached by telephone at (33) 5 65 21 23 62 or (33) 06 74 49 7049 Wthin France by dialing, 05 65 21 23 62 or 06 74 49 70 49. and also by e-mail < jlestrade1@aol.com >