"MULTIPLICITY OF SELVES" Print

Thalmann is a Swiss-Canadian artist from the Beaches Toronto area. She relocated to Thessalon, Ontario, in 2016 and lived there until 2025. In 2025 she moved to Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, where she lives and operates her studio. Her style is in abstract expressionism and most of her paintings are within the medium to large scale range. She works in oil, acrylic, watercolour, sculpture, mixed media, and installation. Thalmann has been exhibiting and selling her work since 2004 through her fine art business Thalmann Designs TM. 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. She studied psychology and visual arts at York University in Toronto. She is a registered psychotherapist in private practice holding a master’s degree in clinical psychology, and, is a writer and an actor. 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.