Why I Recommend
I first saw de Lesseps’ paintings at The Ranch in Montauk, a horse farm and gallery run by the former owner of Marlborough, a Contemporary art gallery in Chelsea. I was taken with the artist’s romantic sensibility and use of soft, blended brushwork.
Through direct observation, de Lesseps paints nostalgic landscapes and portraits of friends that capture a contemporary zeitgeist. As nature and our climate become increasingly threatened, de Lesseps offers an almost dream-like vision of a way forward, through paintings that look back in time to pastoral depictions of nature and simpler times. De Lesseps is part of a growing number of young artists who choose to paint landscapes, not as an escape from reality but to demonstrate an alternative way of life.
