Alchemists chose salamanders to symbolize fire, but endangered Texas salamanders are actually water creatures vulnerable to the toxins their thin skin absorbs. Sometimes the most magical thing is sensitivity, not invulnerability.

#SalamandersAreReal #CreativeWisdom #WaterStewardship

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!

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 #paintingporch

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.

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

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

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

I’m getting ready to set up an exhibition of silk painting that focus on Aquifers.

Where did my paper draft go?? Oh, Morsel!

I’m getting ready to visit colleagues in Tokyo, Kanazawa and Kyoto. Little gifts are always appreciated, so I painted moon motifs on silk to wrap these little vegetable chopstick rests I bought from Wing on Wo and Co. #furoshiki #moonart #silkpainting #batik #textiles