Ted Peñaflor earned his Fine Arts - Advertising degree from the University of the East where he was also awarded Visual Artist of the Year in 2000. Peñaflor won numerous prestigious awards including the Grand Prize at the 20th Metrobank Young Painter’s Annual, Water Media Category (now MADE). He was also given an Honorable Mention at the Art Association of the Philippines’ 68th Annual Painting Competition in 2015, and became a Finalist for the Representational Category at the GSIS National Art Competition in 2016. Ted Peñaflor was also the Featured Filipino Contemporary Artist of Magazine43 Hong Kong in 2019.
Ted Peñaflor’s art is inspired by day-to-day-life including childhood memories, family bonding activities, positive reflections, and peculiar life experiences. “Having worked for 15 years with TOEI Animation Phil. got me hooked on looking up at cloud details since my trainee days,” the artist narrates. “The show ‘One Piece’ had a lot of clouds in every episode of it. Simple yet tricky tonal values one would not underestimate to execute to perfectly fit each scene,” Peñaflor concludes.