Yves Bonnaffoux

Born in Marseille on the 30th of October 1952, Yvon Bonnaffoux is the painter of an intimate and exalted Provence. But he has also an abstract approach in the works he named “Allegories”.
Through his oil technique « in the paste » applied with deft touches of the palette knife, the artist gives to the material and the perspectives an astounding realism, a deeply touching luminosity effect.
« Yvon Bonnaffoux releases his emotions on the pathways of Provence. Come through his windows… Windows through which the sun is pouring in : here as a sweeping light, there flooding the countryside at the peak heat of the day… The wheat fields starred with poppies, the blossoming almond trees, the flamboyant gorses, these olive trees sculptured by the wind, this path bathed in the sunshine which snakes a few meters through dense thickets and appears to emerge from the nurturing rocks : all the magic of Provence, Yvon Bonnaffoux has re-created this on his canvasses. Robert CAUQUIL.