Publications
“The work still holds the tension of the just-struck piano string, but in that mark I find all the confidence of an artist who’s reached transcendence.”
— Emily McKibbon
Light and Shadow, 2013-2015, 45.72 x 45.72 cm, Acrylic on Wood Panel
McKibbon, Emily. "Light and Shadow: One Painting, Two Lives." The Malahat Review, issue l. 221, Winter 2022, pp. 47-53.
Tipping Point, 2022, acrylic on panel, 50.8 × 50.8 centimetres. Photo: Joseph Hartman. Collection of the artist. Courtesy Woodstock Art Gallery, Woodstock.
“There is something truly gorgeous in Thomas’s choice of colour and gestures. Some marks are bold, some colours are muddy, but there is a tenderness in the application, nonetheless. A number of works, like What I Know, are vibrantly colourful, and her use of black in Tipping Point, for example, feels like a block or warning, instructing the viewer not to look too long lest it overcomes you.”
— Sandra Fraser
Fraser, Sandra. "Ron Shuebrook and Frances Thomas: In Conversation." Border Crossings, no. 165, Aug. 2024, pp. 34–41. Border Crossings Magazine, https://bordercrossingsmag.com/article/ron-shuebrook-and-frances-thomas-in-conversation. Accessed 23 May 2025.
“Her paintings are wildly spontaneous, seriously present, and dig into the marrow of the passing moment. The verve of her brushstrokes reveal a train of thought, mood, or state of being.”
— Mathew Ryan Smith
Mystic, 2020, 76 x 76 cm, Acrylic on panel. Photo: Joseph Hartman.
Smith, Matthew Ryan. "In Conversation: Ron Shuebrook and Frances Thomas." Centred, 15 Dec. 2023, https://www.centred.ca/in-conversation-ron-shuebrook-and-frances-thomas/. Accessed 25 May 2025.