My name is Jenny Thalheim and I was born in Saxony, in the South-East of Germany. Currently I work as an illustrator and water colour teacher in Greifswald, at the Baltic Sea.
There were always two sources of inspiration for me: the beauty of the nature surrounding me and the beauty of the imagined worlds, that come to life in books.
I adopted some skills for painting nature, especially flowers, in my porcelain-painter-training-days. And because curiosity hasn’t killed this particular cat yet, I continued my learning process ever since.
I gathered knowledge on (advertising) psychology, successfully completed a correspondence course on desktop publishing and regularly take part in schoolism courses, taught by the giants of the industry like Bobby Chiu and Nathan Fowkes.
In 2019 I started teaching water colour painting at our local community college, the VHS Vorpommern-Greifswald and our socio-cultural center, the St.Spiritus. Since 2020 I offer my courses online, so more people from near and far can participate.
2022 was quite a diversified year for me, artwise, and I got to broaden my artistical horizon quite a bit.
I was asked to design the calendar for our local animal rescue center, the Tierschutzbund Greifswald, which gave me the awesome opportunity to paint a lot of cute animals and to support the wonderful and important work of the rescue center.
Another extraordinary project was the decoration of a whole dental clinic with murals of a beautiful forest and a lot of forest creatures.
And I designed the album artwork for Turtleneck, one of Greifswald’s most terrific bands, doing some cool wimmelpicture style paintings.
Some of my clients and partners:
- Turtleneck
- Zahnarztpraxis Anne Rahn
- Tierschutzbund Greifswald
- Volkshochschule Vorpommern-Greifswald
- Soziokulturelles Zentrum St. Spiritus Greifswald
- Oberlausitzer Verlag
- Rödentaler Living Glass
- Physiotherapie Schramm
- Skylla’s Curs