Andrea L. Bonfils is an award winning artist whose paintings serve as metaphors for life's experiences. "All natural beauty is like contemplating birth - no matter how common the event, it is always spectacular in every way."

With a reverence towards the organic Andrea paints what she enjoys most: plentiful gardens, crashing waves, fog or passionate colored skies.

Utilizing oils and encaustics and some mixed media Andrea relates her vision of the dramatic, mysterious and ethereal subjects that surround her daily. In the manner of the master American landscape painters she uses a variety of painting techniques such as glazes to achieve different surface textures.

Andrea has had many solo and group exhibitions. She is represented by Anelle Gandelman Fine Art, NY, Harbor Gallery, CT, and Art Rent and Lease, LLC, USA. Her work can also be seen in many annual and regional shows including Greenwich Art to the Avenue, CT, Silvermine Art Guild, CT, Red Dot, NYC, Artspace, CT, and the CCBF Auction at Phillips de Pury, NYC.

Her work has been featured in several publications, such as Connecticut Cottages and Gardens, Yale Daily News, Upscale Living, and Coastal Living Magazine, among others. Andrea specializes in commission work including what she calls "documentation event portraits." The portrait subject develops a symbol of them self in their favorite color along with 10 descriptive words, developing a holistic abstract, semantic, tonal and color identity document.

Through close collaboration with each client, all of her commissioned paintings reflect a unique approach to customizing subject matter and the needs of the collector. As a result her work is in numerous private collections throughout the world. Andrea received her education at The Arts Students League in New York.

Working as a fulltime artist she creates her work from her post and beam barn studio in Connecticut.