Painting with life: We present the first progeny of a collaboration between artist. Amy Chase Gulden and scientist, Kristin Baldwin Ph.D. Our images, which may resemble traditional watercolors, oils or drawings, are actually paintings made from growing microorganisms.

Our paint is E. coli bacteria. Our canvas is agar in a petri dish.

When we paint, the brushstrokes are nearly invisible. 

The blue designs emerge only after a night spent growing in a warm incubator.  The developing images contain pools, lines and dots that fill our brushstrokes yet grow in unpredictable patterns. Each dot is a living colony, a tiny mountain of billions of bacteria that grew from a single bacterial cell when it fell from brush to canvas. 

See our gallery of recent work and check out our blog for current shows and events. Inquiries? Please contact acgulden at gmail.