An Inspiring Collaboration: Pastels Girault® and Alexis Le Borgne
November 14, 2025
Visionary pastel artist, intuitive colorist, and creator of powerful universes, Alexis Le Borgne joins Pastels Girault as an ambassador. His constant pursuit of balance, light, and emotion resonates naturally with our pastels, handcrafted in Dordogne since 1780.
Today, this collaboration reaches a new milestone: new original creations, an exclusive interview video, and a premium collection designed with Alexis to support every artist in exploring their individual worlds.
🎥 New Interview Video
In this video, he shares:
His deep inspirations linked to Japan
His intuitive and sensory approach
His creative process
His use of Pastels Girault® soft pastels
Video filmed in July 2025
New Featured Set – 25 Pastels “Kaguya”
Since our first announcement, Alexis Le Borgne has designed an exclusive 25-pastel collection, conceived as an ideal chromatic base for working within his artistic universes: Kaguya, the Moon Goddess.
This selection brings together:
Structuring values
Key luminous colors
Poetic and adjustable hues
A versatile harmony for landscapes, portraits, or narrative scenes
This set is suitable both for beginning artists seeking a balanced palette and for experienced pastelists wanting to explore the nuances unique to Alexis.
“Hajimari” : Exclusive 152-Pastel Set Designed by Alexis Le Borgne
Pastels Girault® unveils Hajimari (meaning “the beginning” in Japanese), a set that symbolizes the birth of a creative cycle: a starting point into all of Alexis Le Borgne’s artistic universes, gathered in an exceptional selection of 152 pastels.
Nocturnal and lunar universe: silvery tones, deep blues, vibrant shadows. Named after the Moon Princess in The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, one of Japan’s oldest stories. → Symbolizes moonlight, mystery, the celestial, and sacred femininity.
AMATERASU天照 / Amaterasu-ōmikami
Solar light universe: warm ochres, bright whites, luminous yellows, strong contrasts. Amaterasu is the sun goddess in Shinto belief. → Symbolizes light, life, clarity, and solar energy.
WABI SABI 侘寂
The beauty of imperfection: natural harmonies, softened greens, subtle browns, earthy nuances. Reflects simplicity, humility, and the beauty of passage of time. → Symbolizes impermanence, simplicity, and authentic beauty.
NIWA 庭
Sophisticated greens and gentle transitions create calm, balanced atmospheres. Refers to the Japanese garden — an ordered, peaceful, contemplative space. → Symbolizes calm, balance, and nature in harmony.
Each stick was chosen for color accuracy and narrative potential, offering a complete, coherent, and refined palette ready to support both Alexis’s vision and every artist seeking depth.
Each stick was chosen for color accuracy and narrative potential, offering a complete, coherent, and refined palette ready to support both Alexis’s vision and every artist seeking depth.
Conclusion
This collaboration with Alexis Le Borgne perfectly reflects what defines Pastels Girault: tradition, handcrafted excellence, and artistic innovation.
Between the interview video, the new pastel selection, and the premium set, we are delighted to offer artists an immersive experience into the universe of an inspiring creator.
November 2024
Pastels Girault is proud to announce its collaboration with Alexis Le Borgne, a talented artist renowned for his exceptional mastery of soft pastels. As the official ambassador of our brand starting this year, Alexis brings a new dimension to our product range, infusing each pastel with his talent and unique artistic vision.
Ikébana aux magnolias
Alexis Le Borgne: An Artist Passionate About Light and Color
Alexis Le Borgne is a contemporary artist whose work is marked by an in-depth exploration of the interactions between light and color. Passionate about soft pastels, he uses this medium to capture fleeting moments in nature and scenes from everyday life with vibrant intensity. His ability to manipulate the nuances and textures of soft pastels allows him to create compositions of incomparable visual richness.
From a very young age, Alexis developed a love for drawing and painting. After studying at the School of Fine Arts and mastering other mediums as well, he refined his practice of soft pastels—a technique that allows him to work with great spontaneity while offering an infinite range of creative possibilities. Known for his ability to capture light and play with color with rare precision and sensitivity, his work is often described as vibrant and emotionally moving. His style stands out for its bold use of hues and meticulous attention to detail, creating works that are both realistic and infused with a poetic touch.
Three Exclusive Compositions
To mark the beginning of our collaboration, Alexis Le Borgne created three original compositions using exclusively Pastels Girault. These works are inspired by a Japan-influenced theme, an artistic direction Alexis explores with passion. Each composition reflects the beauty and serenity of Japanese aesthetics, showcasing the exceptional quality and richness of the pigments in our pastels. Each piece reflects Alexis’s technical mastery and artistic sensitivity, transforming our pastels into true tools of visual poetry.
“NIWA” : Niwa” means “garden” in Japanese. This set is designed to evoke mineral tones through a range of colored grays, and vegetal tones through warm and cool greens. It is built on the balance between these two elements to offer a natural, subtle harmony that reflects the sense of calm and tranquility that emanates from nature.
Niwa Jardin en Japonnais
“WABI SABI” : Wabi-sabi is a Japanese life philosophy and aesthetic principle that finds beauty in impermanence and in imperfect, simple things. Created by the masters of the tea ceremony, it is connected to various traditional arts (pottery, architecture, gardens, floral art, etc.). Wabi-sabi celebrates raw materials enhanced by the passage of time.
This set translates that spirit through muted, deep, restrained, and refined colors, echoing the tones of rough ceramics, clay, raw wood, the brown-greens of young buds, the leaves of a drying ikebana arrangement, and the colored grays of dawn or dusk.
Wabi Sabi principe japonnais
“AMATERASU” : Kami and the Sun Goddess in Japan. This set of warm tones was designed to express the soft, radiant, and subtle warm colors of early morning or the final moments of the setting sun. It is perfectly suited for portraiture, floral art, landscapes, still life, and even wildlife art. Each pastel stick has been carefully selected to maximize creative possibilities and allow artists to create and refine new colors across a wide range of subjects. The palette is balanced with saturated and light tones for highlights, mid-tones, and darker shades for shadows and transitions.
AMATERASU déesse du soleil
Elegant Visuals for Artistic Packaging
In addition to creating these compositions, Alexis Le Borgne also designed visuals for our new packaging, integrating elements of his artwork into attractive, modern designs. Each Pastels Girault box thus becomes a true work of art, inviting artists around the world to discover the magic of our products through the eyes of a pastel master.
A Collaboration Full of Promise
At Pastels Girault, we work with many talented artists, each bringing their own vision and unique style. Our collaboration with Alexis Le Borgne is part of this tradition of excellence and artistic diversity. While highlighting Alexis’s exceptional talent, we remain deeply committed to supporting and celebrating all the artists in our community.
As an ambassador, Alexis Le Borgne will take part in workshops and demonstrations, sharing his techniques and experience with fellow artists and pastel enthusiasts. These events will offer a unique opportunity to discover the secrets of his craft and to be inspired by his creative approach.
This collaboration between Pastels Girault and Alexis Le Borgne represents the meeting of two passions: that of a pastel manufacturer devoted to quality and innovation, and that of an artist determined to push the boundaries of his art. Together, we hope to inspire a new generation of artists to explore the infinite possibilities offered by soft pastels. At Pastels Girault, we firmly believe that every artist has the power to transform our world with color and passion, and we are honored to be part of this creative journey.
