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Thierry Chatelain was born in Morocco in 1952, to a French colonial family living in Casablanca. At national independence the family returned to France, then moved to southern California, where the artist early displayed rare and luminous gifts. A remarkable instance of acknowledgment of talent and permission for a particular vision made all the more remarkable because the present was not given as a literal road map: the higher realms beyond the four senses, and not the bizarre or eccentric were always the inspiration for his work. 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 Chatelains painting. These higher forces are juxtaposed oftentimes with global native and vanished cultures and with the animal and floral kingdoms into an inclusionary celebration of the earth and her contents. Yet in spite of its exquisite realism, Chatelains painting offers us something more, a channel into the universal subconscious, of myth and pure imagination, and it is this inspiration which gives his subject matter its widespread appeal. 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 Chatelains brushwork is in every way matched by his unearthly powers as a colorist. |
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BIOGRAPHICAL EVENTS 1974 Work for various advertising agencies and begin to show my paintings at the San Diego Art Institute. 1976 First one-man show at Knowles Gallery in La Jolla, CA. 19761990 Eight one-man shows at Knowles. Published four gallery posters at Knowles. 1980 Begin painting Native American subjects. 1981 One-man show at San Diego Museum of Art. 1984 Show at San Diego Museum of Natural History, San Diego, CA. 1984 Show at Maple Creek Gallery in San Diego, CA. 1984 Show at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, TN. 1984 Chosen to illustrate the 131st California State Fair poster and promotion, and the San Diego Symphony Pops poster and promotion. 1986 Produce Mayan Stela Series, Limited Edition paper sculptures. 1987 Serve as President of San Diego Artists Guild, and participated in many Artists Guild shows. 1988 Show at Atlantia Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. 1988 Show at Reid Gallery, Carmel, CA. 1991 Begin work with my friend Dan Dryden, Scenic Designer and Art Director with Universal Studios, Disney, and Sea World, as his illustrator on many projects. Featured in Magical Blend magazine, April 1991, Issue 30. 1992 Help Dan install E.T. the Extraterrestrial attraction at Universal Studios, Orlando, FL. 1992 Visit Hawaii, big island, for the first of five trips through 1997. Swim with dolphins in the wild. Begin painting tropical and underwater subjects. 1992 Leanin Tree Greetings begins to publish my paintings on notecards, posters and other products for national distribution. By 1994 I have 22 designs in their catalog. 1993 Meet Marilyn Youngbird, Sioux Medicine Woman, and begin four years of study and sweat lodge ceremonies. Further integration of my art and spirit. 1993 Meet Deane Hawley, music producer, and began friendship and artistic collaborations. 1994 Deane and I work on Mind, Body, Soul, and Walking into the Future, CD projects. 1995 Visit Hawaii and the spiritual community of friends, writers, and artists for the third time. |
1995
Meet Zannah, feature writer for Angel Times Magazine. My work
is featured in Vol 1, Issue 4. Am now painting winged Native Americans and
Angels. Zannah is introduced to Deane Hawley. We all begin collaborating
on art, music and literature projects. 1995 October 28, my beloved mother and father pass away on the same day, eight hours apart. A profound spiritual experience of love, light and Angels ensues. 1996 Angels are calling in my paintings. I am featured in the art book, One Source, Sacred Journeys, by Gary Markowitz, showcasing 44 spiritual artists. 1996 Trail West Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA. 1997 New publishing company, Triangel Arts is formed and produces five different Giclée Limited Edition Prints of Visions of Angels Collection. 1997 Triangel Arts is featured in the Angel Times Yellow Pages 1997 Through the creative talents of Dean, Zannah, myself and several others, our CD, Zannahs Angelight, is released by Insight Music with my Angels featured in the package. 1997 Our INSIGHT group is interviewed by Martin Waterman and Lifestyle Software Group for an upcoming documentary and CD-ROM on Angels. 1997 Our INSIGHT group appears on the syndicated television program, Cynthia Brians Starstyle Live Your Dreams. 1997 Featured in the book Angels A to Z, by James R. Lewis and Evelyn Dorothy Oliver. 1997 One-man Show at Angels Haven, Lake Tahoe, CA. 1997 One-man Show at Angels Among-Us Gallery, La Mesa, CA. 1998 Our INSIGHT group begins lecture series at BORDERS Books. 1998 Old friend Damon Hedgepeth, Gardening Editor of San Diego Home and Garden Magazine campaigns for me to do a horticultural series; he is inspired by the flowers exhibited in my artwork. My Les Fleurs series begins to blossom. 1999 Join fellow artists John Abel, Ken Goldman, Stephanie Goldman, Analise Rigan and Andre Rushing to work on a series of 144 paintings for East meets West produced by Company Ninety-Eight. |
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