Pierre Lamalattie was born in 1956 in a family of Limousine origin settled in Paris. His grandmother, Marguerite Juille, gave him the taste for drawing and made him observe beautiful things. Artist Léo Lotz made him paint during the weekends and taught him the bases of oil painting.

During his(its) holidays on the tray(plateau) of Millevaches, he(it) feels(smells) and experiments a wild nature. He(it) crosses(spends) his(its) evenings in discussions with an authentic hermit, an abbot Frémont.

As a teenager he visited France's museums and travelled to Italy. He was filled with enthusiasm for Mannerism, Caravaggism and the Baroque, as well Academic (Pompier art) and Symbolists painters of the 19th century. A predilection for tragedy in painting as well as a dissatisfied sensitivity for modernity took shape.

Advised to take up Engineering studies, in which had no belief, he entered the Institut national agronomique in 1975. In this school he did however make determining encounters and bind friendship with atypical agronomists, a future writer, a priest, etc.

His career as an engineer, in which he engaged out of necessity, quickly evolved towards social mediation and work relations. In the heart of economic and social life, he feels the need to express the suffering, ridicule and, sometimes, beauty that mark our lives. He devotes more and more time to painting until it becomes his only occupation.

In 1996 he enters the Figuration Critique group. In 1998 he becomes a sociétaire of the Salon d'automne, and then takes part in many exhibitions in France and around the world.
Pierre Lamalattie lives and works in Paris.