Statement
I give natural and synthetic forces human form. My work draws on surrealism, Art Nouveau and futurism, using saturated color, figurative detail and large-scale imagery.
Recent paintings personify ocean currents, wildfire, rain, artificial intelligence and genetic engineering. My murals extend the same approach into public space, often connecting figures to landscape, place and history.
I am interested in things that shape our lives but are difficult to see directly. Painting gives them a face, a body and a story.
Short Bio
Cassie Tumlinson is an American painter and muralist based near Munich, Germany. She was represented as a teenager by Fauna, a gallery in Sedona, Arizona, and later earned a BFA in Painting and Drawing from Arizona State University, graduating summa cum laude. She continued painting and selling work while raising two sons in Europe; since 2023, her practice has expanded across studio painting, large-scale murals and exhibitions in Germany and the United States.
Drawing on surrealism, Art Nouveau and futurism, Tumlinson gives human form to forces that are difficult to see directly. Her paintings personify ocean currents, desert weather, cosmic processes, artificial intelligence and genetic engineering. Her public work brings the same figurative approach to landscape, place and local history.
She is a member of the Professional Association of Visual Artists Munich and Upper Bavaria (BBK) and the Munich Artists’ Association (MKG), a historic artists’ association royally chartered in 1868. She co-founded Munich Wallflowers, an all-women street-art collective, and is a member of the New York graffiti crew Mad Transit Artists.
In 2025, Tumlinson led a five-artist Wallflowers team in creating a public mural honoring the women of Giesing in Munich. Her 2026 work includes the Sedona Schnebly Sky commission in Sedona, Arizona, and participation in Meeting of Styles in Wiesbaden, Germany. In 2027, she will participate in a special exhibition at Munich’s State Museum of Egyptian Art and has been selected for the 22nd Annual Cowgirl Up! Art from the Other Half of the West at Arizona’s Sigler Western Museum, a Smithsonian Affiliate.