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 I’m currently transforming these images into a coloring book. The project is available as a free high school art lesson plan. Tell all the art teachers you know!
My blog is the best place to find updates about the project—sign up to receive emails whenever I post something new.
Art can fight hate.
When a pedestrian bridge in a park near my place was overrun with hateful vandalism, I responded with art. After NJ.com and the Bucks County Beacon covered the story, the park authorities finally took action, unintentionally giving the bridge a delightful shadow rainbow that you can see in the photo on the right or in person at the Alexauken Creek Spillway Bridge in Lambertville, New Jersey.
Read more about this artistic form of activism in this excellent NJarts.net interview.
“[This artistic intervention] was an honest attempt at visual conversation at a time when discourse is in short supply, and it was done with the wit, color and personality that characterizes all of [Seemel]’s work.”
