Gwendolyn

Signed book on a table

My first book signing is happening soon!
Groundwork: Art Honoring the Aquifers
Pecantown Books & Brews, Seguin
Sat Sept 6, 3–5pm
Readings, art process talk, live silk painting, and signed copies available. Come join me!

A rural porch workspace with four watercolor pads arranged side by side, each displaying a section of a bright abstract textile design. Brushes, paints, and natural light suggest a contemplative outdoor studio setting.

The painting porch. Four watercolor pads. A summer of podcasts and no Wi-Fi.
My new blog post, Finding a Guru, is about unexpected mentorship and what emerges when you let creativity lead.
[https://open.substack.com/pub/gwendolynstudio/p/finding-a-guru]
#textileart #creativepractice #Groundwork #pai

Silk painting showing a stylized waterfall descending through dark stone, overlaid with symbolic cave imagery; part of the Yuzen banner from the Groundwork series.

What if your ideas aren't floating above you, waiting to be caught, but moving under the surface, like water through limestone?
My newest project traces symbolic layers beneath my silk painting practice and introduces the Subsurface Oracle, a project rooted in myth, aquifers, and creative intuition.

One for you

#art #watercolor #painting #landscape #moody #witchy #darkart

Single poppy is a watercolor painting in portrait format painted by artist Karen Kaspar. A beautiful single poppy flower in vibrant shades of red, orange and yellow is painted on a white background.

Every spring and summer I enjoy the beautiful bright red poppies blooming everywhere in the garden and fields.

Single poppy - Hand-painted watercolor --> karen-kaspar.pixels.com/featured/sin...

#art #painting #watercolor #flowers #garden #floral #nature #wildflowers #minimalism

A painting of Sitka and arrowhead mountain as seen from the top of the O’Connell bridge heading into town.

Into Town
18 by 24, mixed media on fabriano
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#sitka #madeinalaska #painting #painted #traditionalmediums #byhand #landscape #nightscape #art #artistonbluesky #perspective #alaska

Gross and hot outside= studio time. I think I'm just about done with this one. #oilpainting #art #ontario #algonquin #canadianart #canada #painting #landscapepainting

“Under the Pines on a Summer’s Day” 12”x 12”
An invitation from a soft bed of pine needles to escape the summer’s heat
#summer #art #painting #oilpainting #canadianart #pinetree #forest #forestpainting #boldcolour #bold #openimpressionism #sgraffito #modernlandscape #forestbathing #contemporaryart

Guilded Knoll 12”x 12”
Part of my private collection. Some of my babies just need to stay with me for a while before I’m ready for them to leave the nest.
#privatecollection #art #painting #oilpainting #modernlandscape #openimpressionism #boldcolour #boldbrush #oillandscape #artshare #canadianart

Raymond Daussy (French, 1919–2010)
"A Bicycle Tour", 1950.
Oil on Canvas, 61 × 46 cm.
Private Collection.
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt

Colorful Creativity, #quilt by #yayaanco

#art #artsky #quiltsky

"Down by the River" Oil/Mixed media on 100% Rag Cotton paper 22 X 30

#art #abstractart #oilpainting

In May, we travelled to Moab, UT to attend the wedding of our niece. We spent a day in Arches National Park, which was wonderful. This painting was done as a gift for the bride and groom. Double Arch 11x15 #watercolor.

L’Anse aux Meadows, northern Newfoundland. Minus 36 degrees Celsius with wind chill today. Frostbite warning.
#newfoundland #northerncanada

"Dusk In A Ravaged Land"
oil on canvas
24x24 inches
Nicki Ault
2019

#NorthernCanada #dusk #paintinglight #oilpainter #artist #blueskyart #bskyart

My current work in progress of another iris in oils with a background of 24carat gold leaf.
This is a detail shot of part of the painting showing the newly completed upper iris bloom.

#oilpainting #gold #goldleaf #gilding #contemporaryart #britishartist #floral #gallery #botanical #flower

On the Green, Plein Air ~ 8x8 Oil/Panel/Palette Knife

A bee bumbles busily atop the orange center of a pink coneflower. Its wings almost glow red in the sunlight.

I never knew their wings were that color.

#blueskyartshow #vibrant

The stream below Yes Tor #Dartmoor

Thank you! It’s so reality! I worked so hard on the paintings but nothing lives longer than a book.

My exhibition catalog book proof arrived! Hyperventilating with a box cutter! My first book!!!!📕 #textileart #silkpainting #book #proofreading

Silk painting of a full moon glowing through tree branches, with an owl perched quietly among the limbs—capturing a nocturnal stillness in layered dye.

Have you ever run barefoot under a moon so bright it felt like a dream?
My latest blog post dives into lunar memory, silk dye, and the pull of the subconscious.
Check it out at: gwendolynstudio/substack.com

Silk painting of rock formations on Crete against a blue sky

Current thread of thought:

15 silk banners, hand-painted. Each with its own essay.

Painting as listening, through aquifers, endangered habitats, and underground mythologies.

I'm tracing the surface as a site of crossing.

Art as ritual, essay as echo.

More at https://gwendolynstudio.com

Moonset.

#Landscape with setting Moon. #Treescape #Scape #EastCoastKin

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PS these are real flowers from my garden in a miniature (really tiny) burst lip Victorian bottle:
🌿thyme
🌿forget me not
🌿cow parsley
🌿saxifrage
🌿buttercup
🌿tiny wild geranium
🌿feverfew

A view from inside a forest glade looking out through the trees at the sky beyond as it turns pink and yellow. The glade is filled with different birds in song

Other work by the Ladybird artists.
‘Morning Chorus in May’
Shell Nature Studies, 1956
Artists: Rowland Hilder & Maurice Wilson

Navy knit cardigan with jewel shaped embroideries on the back and sleeve.

Navy knit cardigan with wings and jewels shaped embroideries on the front and sleeve.

Sneak peeks 💫

Locus is one of my favorite magazines inside or outside of SFF. Help keep them going, everyone.

They also come in some wonderful colors!

In the fourth century, the Chinese poet Su Hui wrote a reversible poem in five colors of silk, designed to correspond to a star gauge for reading the cosmos. Her poem had nearly eight thousand possible readings. Su Hui sent this poem as a letter to her husband who was far away. Upon reading Su Hui’s poem, the couple reunited for life.

When you find out the bar was set, met and never surpassed 1700 years ago.