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, and it has become a free high school art lesson plan as well as a mental health workbook with nineteen dreamlike coloring pages and the questions for reflection to go with them. This workbook is designed to help you embrace your complexity with creativity and kindness.
See this painting in person in Trenton, New Jersey!
The artwork featured in this video is part of my Everything’s Fine project, and it’s part of Ellarslie 41, Trenton City Museum’s annual juried show, which is open now through the end of September.
