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Thaneah's visual art is born of an accumulation of past experience working with a variety of mediums and techniques in many creative fields: graphic design, clothing and hat design, sign painting, theatre production and set painting.

She graduated from a two year Fine Arts program which included courses in drawing, painting, sculpture, woodworking, metalworking and welding, industrial design, print-making, graphic design, ceramics and technical drawing at John Abbott College in her home town of Montreal, Canada. After moving to Edmonton, she completed a one-year full-time Tailoring course at N.A.I.T. and a one-year course in theatre production, design, and technology at the Faculté St. Jean of the University of Alberta.

Loving the creative process from a very young age, she spent much of her childhood time involved in arts and crafts projects. As an adolescent, she won 3 out of 4 drawing contests entered. To make up for lack of an art program in her high school, Thaneah spent leisure time in her father's garage building creations out of wood and other scraps, and enrolled in summer-school courses in painting and ceramics. After completing the course at John Abbott, she freelanced as a graphic artist, designing t-shirts and logos for various athletic (track and field) activities in which she was involved. Her N.A.I.T. education encouraged her to further pursue a love of designing and producing clothing including athletic-wear. Missing working with a wider variety of materials, she spent several years following her theatre education building props and set painting for festivals and community theatres, which eventually led to the birth of a small business designing and creating hats. Feeling like she was only skimming around the edges of being the visual artist she had always wanted to be, in 1999, she found an old blank canvas and started painting again.

Since then, she has experimented with various mediums and techniques including mixed-media collage, pencil crayon drawings, and abstract as well as more representational acrylic painting. Her art was first exhibited in her college gallery and has been in many venues and shows in Edmonton. It is in collections in Canada, the U.S., Australia and Europe.