The distinguished maritime and landscape artist Andre Bourrie is a foremost master of Modern Impressionism. A member of the prestigious Salons d’Automne and Salons des Artistes Francais in France, as well as the Official Painter of the French Navy, Bourrie is one of the most highly praised and widely collected artists in Europe. Born in Montpellier, France in 1963 he lost his parents at an early age and spent a portion of his childhood in an orphanage. These harsh beginnings forced Bourrie to find solace in the world around him; he turned to the natural world, to the beauty of his surroundings, and found pleasure in its color, texture and forms. Today, Andre Bourrie is a universally acknowledged master of color, renowned for his paintings of the French sea and countryside "awash with light and tranquillity."