"MULTIPLICITY OF SELVES" Painting

Thalmann is a Swiss-Canadian artist from the Beaches Toronto area and currently lives in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada. Her main style is in abstract expressionism. She works in oil, acrylic, watercolour, sculpture, mixed media, illustration, graphic/digital art design, and installation. Thalmann has been exhibiting and selling her work since 2004 through her fine art business Thalmann Designs TM. She studied psychology and visual arts at York University in Toronto. She has a master’s degree in clinical psychology. She is also a writer, actor, and blackbelt in Karate. Much of the inspiration behind Thalmann’s work has come from her beloved city of Toronto where she lived for most of her life, from her new beloved home in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, and, from her many travels to Europe and the Caribbean. Throughout her collections one theme that stays constant is her depictions of both cityscapes and seascapes. Thalmann is highly interested in human behaviour and the concept of the unconscious. She draws upon her own life experience and interactions with others for inspiration and finds human behavior, broadly defined, to be one of the most fascinating areas of study and a rich source for creative expression. Process is a very crucial and major aspect in Thalmann’s work. Every picture is in a constant process of change and she only stops working on it once she feels it depicts the right emotion(s) when looking at it. Everyone experiences emotions in varying ways, and she wants to leave it up to the eye of the beholder to interpret each piece independently for themselves, thus encouraging a broad range of interpretations. Thalmann understands art as being an interactive dialogue between artist and observer.