French-American Artist

making artworks that are brightly colored, boldly painted, and bursting with love

Gwenn Seemel Polly Want a Polly 2012

Art IRL

Crime Against Nature will be at FIAF Montclair starting April 12th!

Fitting In and Standing Out

My 2017 series Empathetic Magic is back in focus. I am adding new portraits to the collection for an exhibition in April at Lyceum Hall in Burlington. Bust and New Jersey Monthly both have things to say about the series.

Get Well Soon

I made this painting in 2017 based on interviews I did with Caitlin in 2013. It’s a part of Empathetic Magic, a series which has seen me through some of the most challenging years of my life. For more about Caitlin and to see the other portrait I painted of her, go here.