Boldly painted. Joyfully feminist.
Hi! I’m Gwenn Seemel.
I make brightly colored paintings that are both playful and intense, and I release all my work directly into the public domain, free for use by anybody for any reason. Because of that unusual choice, I was invited to give a TEDx talk in Switzerland. My art has appeared in Newsweek as well as on the cover of an Oxford University Press book, and, in 2023, I made my film début in the Belgian documentary Queerying Nature.
My current project is called Everything’s Fine.
It started out as a series of paintings about mental health that I created over the course of several years. I’m currently transforming these images into a coloring book as well as a high school art curriculum.
Thank you to the 78 lovely people who supported the Kickstarter campaign and to the Puffin Foundation for helping to make this project happen!
Art can fight hate.
When a pedestrian bridge in a park near my place was overrun with Trumpy vandalism, I responded by making oversized bandaids and then some rainbows to heal the hate. With a little help from NJ.com and the Bucks County Beacon covering the story, my art got the park authorities to finally take action and clean up the bridge!