Jack Lestrade
(b. 1932)

Jack Lestrade was born in southwest France.

He has always been attracted to special places to do what he likes most - painting. He spent about five years in Canada and more than forty years in the United States. He became  well established as an internationally respected watercolor artist. Jack was an Artist of America 'Master' in Denver, Colorado, having exhibited in their annual show for sixteen years.

He has shown at the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the National Academy of Design in New York, the National Academy of Western Art in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Lestrade has also shown at the Colorado History Museum in Denver, Colorado, the Great American Artists show in Cincinnati, Ohio as well as numerous one man shows.

Jack has been published in several nationally known art magazines, as well as being featured in four watercolor books published by Northern Light Books in the United States and The Art Of Watercolor by Quanto publishing in England.

Lestrade and his pianist, organist, singer and composer wife, Judy, reside most of the year in the Lot region of southwest France although they spend much of their time in the America.

Jack Lestrade is a member of the Carmel Art Association in Carmel, California, the Artists Fellowship in New York and Les Arts et Lettres de France.