Gwendolyn Hustvedt – Author

Gwendolyn Hustvedt is an author, artist, and professor whose work blends sustainability, symbolism, and creative ritual. This is her official author website.

Her recently published book Groundwork, features a series of fifteen hand-painted silk banners exploring aquifers, underground symbolism, and the seasonal flow of creative energy. Inspired by the Edwards Aquifer, a sacred underground water system that runs beneath her home in San Marcos, Texas, the series explores ecological interconnection, seasonal rhythms, and the unseen layers of both land and self. Created through a deeply personal and embodied process, Groundwork marked a turning point in Gwendolyn’s visual language and continues to inform her writing and symbolic systems, including the later development of Subsurface Oracle.

Her current nonfiction projects include Oneshirt for Life, a memoir-instructional guide to building a sustainable, body-respecting wardrobe, and Subsurface Oracle, a seasonal divination system rooted in myth, ecology, and handmade silk artwork. Gwendolyn’s writing draws on over two decades of experience in sustainable textiles, fashion education, and personal creative practice aligned with lunar cycles and ancestral themes.

Gwendolyn is based in San Marcos, Texas, where her creative process is deeply influenced by the Edwards Aquifer and the sacred waters of the San Marcos River. She is a professor of textiles and past president of the International Federation for Home Economics.

This site serves as a central hub for her author identity, linking together research, artistic projects, and upcoming publications.