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Selected work from 2026

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Paintings, 2026

Oil painting of a frilled lizard wearing headphones — Silent Disco LizardOil on canvas, 2026

Outdoor family portrait in oil with mountains in the background — Simmons Family on Mt Jumbo (commission)Oil on canvas, 2026

Oil painting of two people reading among stacks of books — photo from old hard driveOil on canvas, 2026

Oil painting of people seated at tables in an evening café — Cafe in AmsterdamOil on canvas, 2026

Oil portrait of a blonde woman interrupted by colorful horizontal marks — Taylor GlitchedOil on canvas, 2026

Oil portrait of a man and dog beside a waterfall — Kevin and Louie (commission)Oil on canvas, 2026

Oil group portrait outdoors beneath string lights — Lume TreehouseOil on canvas, 2026

Textured oil painting of a tree beside water in winter — Mueller Pond in WinterOil on canvas, 2026

Three textured abstract oil paintings installed together on a white wall — Tracking ChaosOil on canvas, 2026

Close double portrait in oil of two people making playful expressions — Portrait in the CarOil on canvas, 2026

Oil portrait of two smiling dogs — Dabs & Booger (commission)Oil on canvas, 2026

Oil painting of a silver-haired troll against a purple galaxy — Purple Glitter TrollOil on canvas, 2026

Oil portrait of a leopard gecko resting across a person's hands — Portrait of ElizardbethOil on canvas, 2026

Vibrant oil painting of figures gathered inside a glowing bar — rougebarOil on canvas, 2026

Oil portrait of two men visiting Hoover Dam — Portraits at Hoover DamOil on canvas, 2026

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Capturing a resolving world.

Thilo started painting seriously in 2026 with a vision: to capture the idea that sight is a patchwork of scattered, useless information until the mind resolves it into a world.

Imagine slowing the mind’s rendering of visual information enough to witness it constructing patterns and meaning from raw electromagnetic energy.

He wants to capture, store, and deliver that feeling—then bend it, warp it, and reveal what we might experience if our reality-constructing machinery began to glitch.

Oil painting of a solitary wooden chair interrupted by colorful glitch-like marks — Glitch Chair #1 8 × 12 in · Oil on canvas, 2026

Glitch Chair #1 marks the beginning of this exploration: a familiar object whose image begins to fracture, exposing the tension between raw visual information and the coherent reality the mind insists on seeing.

Paintings /Portraits

Paintings, 2026

Capturing a resolving world.

Paintings /
Portraits