Attracted to the work of Keith Haring and the American graffiti artists, Thion's started exhibiting in 1993. Initially, his work had, at least superficially, much in common with theirs - simple figures, acrylic on canvas, bright colours with bold black outlines. But if you look more carefully, you'll see some important differences: he often positions his figures in a three-dimensional environment, emphasising human feelings that arise from lived situations. Though abstractions of the human form, his figures closely approximate its proportion, permitting the viewer to see him or herself in them. Thion's colours are usually mixed; they convey mixed emotions, complex feelings. The line in Thion's paintings has changed over the years and so has the subject matter. What used to curve softly and sensually at the beginning has been replaced by the year 2000 by a more woodcut, geometric line, as you will see in the next painting galleries. His primary subjects where love, sex and freedom.