Kelsey Wickwire
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Kelsey Wickwire
@coyote-west.bsky.social
artist | MT

kelseywickwire.com/art
Happy Beltane! Build a bonfire! Thank a flower! Reclaim your time from capitalism! Take loud-sigh-full-body breath! Divest from corporations & invest in community! Throw a welcome party for the birds! Light candles & take a bath! Dance badly! Touch dirt! Love is all around! Everything is a circle!
May 1, 2025 at 5:47 PM
pastel + color pencil on paper
April 21, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Always coming home〰️

(Or, dreaming about the swallows)

Color pencil and pastel on paper
March 21, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Somewhere along the way〰️

Pastel + color pencil on paper.
New show opening at Commerce Gallery in Lockhart, TX tomorrow night 𓃗
March 6, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Did you forget
you are a river?

Did you forget
how the rain cuts stone?
March 1, 2025 at 3:55 PM
One more sad song…

[color pencil and pastel on paper, 10x10”]
February 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM
it will be full of dancing.

color pencil and pastel on paper.
February 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
February 17, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Studio scene〰️ [not romantic]

Mostly spent this week framing and crying.
February 16, 2025 at 8:04 PM
𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘨𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘴.

Color pencil and wax pastel on paper, 10x10”.
Opening March 7th at Commerce Gallery in Lockhart, TX〰️
February 16, 2025 at 4:47 PM
happy love day
February 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒅𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒈𝒐 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖’𝒓𝒆 𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈?

Color pencil, gouache, and wax pastel on paper, 36x48”

Opening at Commerce Gallery in Lockhart, TX March 7th
February 13, 2025 at 3:34 PM
soft as flowers 〰️ strong as pine

Pastel + color pencil on paper
February 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Studio scenes from the past 6 months. Wrapping up for my next show at Commerce Gallery in Lockhart, TX opening March 7th〰️
February 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Glacier〰️

Color pencil on paper
February 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Grand Canyon NP〰️
The February illustration from my calendar collab with Parks Project
February 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Made it through the three years that was January…
January 31, 2025 at 4:40 PM
a sunny January day in the studio with a new work that never looks as big in a photo as when it won’t fit in my car…

And new substack dispatch out〰️

open.substack.com/pub/coyotewe...
January 29, 2025 at 8:38 PM
yr of the snake〰️
January 29, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Sunny studio day.
(Ft. The best, but completely unhelpful assistant)
January 26, 2025 at 7:34 PM
〰️grief is a portal〰️

Thinking about Lama Rod Owen’s words recently about needing to “grieve on the go“
and how community and connection can make the difference between the weight of grief becoming momentum fueling rather than an anchor…
January 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I’ve been dusting off some reminders-to-self from the archives..
How many times in my life I’ve felt the world was ending,
and it did not.
The sun still rises.
January 22, 2025 at 10:47 PM