Thierry Chatelain was born in Morocco in 1952, to a French colonial family living in Casablanca. Chatelain has studied at the Ecole des Arts Decoratif in Paris; has shown at, among others, the Knowles Gallery in La Jolla, the San Diego Museum of Art, the Atlantia Gallery in Los Angeles, the Reid Gallery in Carmel. The artist also has work at both Disney and Universal studios. Only the world of light and peace and truth enters into Chatelain’s painting. These higher forces are juxtaposed with global native and vanished cultures and with the animal and floral kingdoms. Indeed, the artist is well celebrated for his brilliant command of gouache and his mastery of color. In both he is arguably without peer; the technical precision of Chatelain’s brushwork is in every way matched by his unearthly powers as a colorist.