When one looks at Thelmi’s paintings one is immediately confronted by the spontaneity of her work

There is also a childlike honesty in the manner that her images especially, are portrayed.  The works are spiritual in a sense and narrative in that they tell a story

One can say that the paintings fit comfortably within Post Modernism as they depict her own particular style and there is definitely dialogue between the artwork and the viewer 

Her style has naïve elements such as lack of perspective as laid down by Renaissance, realistic bodily proportion to the rest of the body etc.  These naïve elements add to the appeal of her work

This could be intentionally, to draw one’s attention to the figures.  Other naïve elements are the lack of shadows, and no recession into space

Thelmi has been influenced by the German Expressionists as can be seen in her emotional use of colour and linear quality about the works 

Thelmi has no formal training, but utilize her own individualistic “poems” in her work, which appear as a collage

Her work has a special quality that should be appreciated for its inner beauty

Merle Stagman - 1999