Isabelle Lebret is a French painter established near Toulouse. Born in 1964 into a partly artistic family, art has been a part of her life from an early age. She chose the path of restoring paintings, an activity she now shares with pictorial creation. She is a member of the Taylor Foundation and a member of the French Artists.
Painting the beauty of Being
The paintings of Isabelle Lebret testify to the richness of the living.
They praise its diversity, its feelings, and its relationship to spirituality.
Isn't a body above all the setting of a soul?
Modernity and classical heritage
Figurative work is built with the posing of models.
A studied composition (even an unusual framing) and a tested technique contribute to the development of the painting.
Oil is used in a succession of increasingly dense and precise layers. It allows for blends and subtle transitions from shadow to light, working with the brush in wet and semi-wet.
The geography of bodies reveals itself in monochrome; blue enhances it.
The use of a single color in chiaroscuro and the sobriety of the background highlight the reliefs of these "landscape-bodies".
The unreal prism of the blue color induces a distance from the subject, while emanating its soothing luminosity.
A benevolent intention
The paintings of Isabelle Lebret whisper to us the poetry of the living. They invite us to an inspiring and nourishing meditative contemplation.