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As a boy raised in southern France, Pierre Delattre was attracted to, and influenced by, the paintings of Picasso, Chagall, Rouault, Matisse and Modigliani. Later, during fifteen years in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, Pierre Delattre was influenced by the magical realists in both my painting and my writing. He came to see himself as a "fabulist." Pierre Delattre continues to share the fascination of certain contemporary artists for the archetypal human drama, even as he explores forms and textures that the new opaque, translucent and transparent acrylics make possible. Pierre Delattre's career as an artist has run parallel with a career in writing fiction, as well as being contributing editor and lead essayist on art for THE, Santa Fe's Monthly Magazine of the Arts for seven years. Pierre Delattre began as a graphic artist in 1971, doing the cover painting and 17 illustrations for my first novel, Tales of a Dalai Lama, and have done the jacket painting for two other books. All Pierre Delattre's books are available through Amazon.com. While he has been immersed in, and has written about, various spiritual traditions, Pierre Delattre sees his painting less as "spiritual" than as spirited. Living as he does in a little Hispanic village at 8,500 feet in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains near Taos, New Mexico, he loves the way that the sacred can be found in the commonplace, the divine in the ordinary. Pierre Delattre regards many of his paintings as functional, in that they are meant to serve as what he calls "primers of positive emotions." Though the paintings are meant for private homes, he see his paintings as also inducing warm, happy, and transformative emotions in public places of commerce, pleasure, or healing.