Pia Thrasher

Pia Thrasher is a visual artist originally from Germany, where she started her art education at the E.T.A. Hoffman Gymnasium in Bamberg. After immigrating to the US, she worked as a production artist and graphic designer. Soon she started her own company Thrasher Design in San Diego. Pia recently branched out into the film industry and has been recognized for her acting, screenwriting and filmmaking talent.

Pia loves using multiple media ranging from traditional art, such as acrylics, watercolor and ink, to 3D art, photography and experimental video. While Pia’s work includes nature, landscape and animal studies, characters and pop art, she is mostly drawn to surreal and dark themes. Her work under the pseudonym “Her Dark Half” focuses on just that.
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Artist Statement:
"I’ve always been fascinated by the macabre and the unspoken. When I was a child I often witnessed the families of recently deceased coming to our home and commissioning my father, a stonemason and sculptor, to create beautiful tombstones and gravesites. The hushed tones and whispers always conjured up the wildest images in my head. Death was an everyday, natural thing to me because it brought my father work. We had tombstones and sculptures all around our front an...

E.T.A. Hoffman Gymnasium, Bamberg, Germany

San Diego Comic-Con Art Show 2012-2023

Horrible Imaginings Art Shows San Diego (2009, 2010, 2013 +)