Welcome on the website of Thierry Bonnaffé, Flemish Painter

Bonnaffe's artistic gift lies in arresting his model's precise emotional state and trans-forming her into a universalized idealization of woman.

Bonnaffé (°1957) studied architecture at Sint-Lucas in Gent/Belgium and got a degree in cinematography. He later completed his formation in drawing by model with R. Delrue. Besides having realized numerous projects in architecture and film, Bonnaffé is above all a passionate painter of the female figure. Regularely he works on commission, draws film actrices and illustrates magazines. Besides drawing, Bonnaffé is also interested in portrait photography.

I always strive for a well balanced, restful composition, in which the technical aspects get as much attention as the aesthetic ones," states Thierry Bonnaffé, a Belgian artist who works in the tradition of figure painting established during the Renaissance. In his search for harmony and balance in the representation of feminine beauty and sensuality, Thierry shows strong affinities with the ideals of postromanticism. His charcoal and sanguine sketches show a rare delicacy and sureness of touch and creativity of vision.”

by prof.Cl.Moscovici