Caleb Thiessen is a Canadian interdisciplinary artist who frequently alternates between traditional mediums such as oil paintings and pastels and modern digital work using a variety of softwares. His chief goal when creating a piece is to remove his audience from the world for a brief moment and to catch a glimpse of his inner-life.

 

While creating work for the Europe-based company Art Space & Design he had the opportunity to show and expand his ongoing project“Infinitely Contained”: a series of oil and acrylic paintings in which Caleb abstracts the organic forms of nature and imagines new kingdoms of flora.

 

Receiving early training from DC comics inker, Curt Shoultz exposed Caleb to the practices of visual storytelling, which would prove to be of ongoing fascination. The influence of expressionist and symbolist artists such as Francis Bacon, Edvard Munch and Max Klinger can be seen throughout Caleb’s oeuvre. It is his goal to move toward less representational work and toward abstraction while retaining a focus on presenting the world from a different angle.