Andrea L. Bonfils’ is an award winning artist whose paintings offer an innovative and unique approach while reflecting her life’s experiences.  Although most inspirations come from the natural world and break from artistic traditions, other artists' influences can still be seen in Andrea's work, such as the colors of Wolf Kahn, the water of Monet or movement of Van Gogh. With a reverence for the organic, Andrea utilizes mostly oils  and encaustics with some mixed media.  Coupling this with her passionate interest in skiing, swimming, hiking and gardening, Andrea paints what she enjoys most; plentiful gardens, trees, crashing waves, divers, fog and passionate colored skies.  Using unconventional hardware, a blow torch, iron and other heated tools, along with paper and natural materials, she emulates her subjects' movement, drama and complexity as she glazes or layers wax over photographs, photo transfers or meticulously renders subjects lost in a waxy fog.   Andrea's uncommon painting techniques and her conservative yet rebellious nature, give way to a vision seen as intense, mysterious and ethereal.

Andrea has had many solo and group exhibitions. Her work can be seen at Anelle Gandelman Fine Art, Art Rent and Lease, USA, and Rockwell Galleries. She participates in many annual and regional shows, including Art Toronto, Canada, The Red Dot Art Show, NYC, CCBF Art Auction at Philips de Pury and Sothebys, NYC, the Affordable Art Fair, NYC and LA, The CCNS Annual Fine Art Show and Greenwich Art to the Avenue, CT . Her work can be seen in several publications, including Yale Daily News, American Art Collector, New Cannan, Darien and Rowayton Magazine, Connecticut Cottages and Gardens, Upscale Living, and Coastal Living Magazine. Recently, Andrea was featured on the nationally syndicated "Better" TV.

Andrea also specializes in a variety of unique commission work, including what she calls "documentation event portraits". The portrait subject develops a personal symbol in their favorite color along with 10 descriptive words, developing a semantic, abstract, color identifying holistic document, all of which is incorporated into a black and white oil portrait. Through close collaboration with each client, Andrea's numerous commissioned paintings continually reflect a unique approach to customizing her subject matter to the needs of the collector.

Andrea's work is in numerous private and corporate collections worldwide including several Tiffany's & Co. stores in London and Vertrue Corporation, CT. Mostly self-taught Andrea also studied at The Arts Students League, NYC, Aldrich Museum Professional Development Program and Silvermine Guild Art Center, CT. Andrea creates her work from her post and beam barn studio in Connecticut and Sante Fe, NM .