Thomas Berthuel-Bonnes discovered painting not through art school, but through seventeen years as an industrial cleaner. Based in Baiona, Basque Country, this French artist developed his visual language on factory floors, where squeegees and industrial surfaces became tools of creative exploration.​

The repetitive gestures of cleaning transformed into artistic practice. Those wave-like movements evolved into a distinctive vocabulary, one built entirely on instinct, physicality, and authenticity.​

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Thomas paints rapidly using large palette knives on Belgian linen, often completing works in just a few decisive movements. His process is ruthlessly selective: he keeps only one painting out of every hundred, retaining only those with the right tension and balance.​

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At the core of his work lies a blue he has patented and copyrighted as his signature color. This isn't decoration, it's structural and philosophical. The blue unfolds in layers from translucent washes to saturated depths, preserving every trace of gesture, pressure, and time.​

Dark contours contain the flow, echoing stained glass and calligraphy. What appears white is his emblematic "Gris Croquis", a calibrated grey acting as visual silence, allowing the blue to breathe and resonate fully.​

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Thomas's work doesn't impose meaning but offers experience, painting as a space between structure and freedom, control and surrender. His canvases sit within constructed abstraction, recalling hard-edge modernism yet softened by human gesture.​

After seventeen years of dedication, his visual language is confident and fully formed. Not searching, declarative.​