Meet Patricia
An Apprenticeship with Water
Patricia Garcia-Gomez is an artist, cultural strategist, and founder of RewildRestore — a body of work exploring water, ritual, perception, creativity, and our relationship with the living world.
For more than a decade, water has been both a practice and a teacher. What began during a creative residency on the Greek island of Naxos became an ongoing inquiry into attention, beauty, ritual, and ways of knowing.
Her work spans immersive experience, cultural storytelling and artistic practice, and has been featured in YOLO Journal, Discovery Channel, AGEIST, and Places of Healing. Her artwork is held in collections and archives including Tate, PACE Gallery, and the Museum of Arts and Design.
Out of water, Patricia Garcia-Gomez is also an award-winning brand creator. She is recognized for crafting the narratives of some of the world's biggest brands, and some of its most beloved. She’s currently focused on helping idea leaders create the narrative that places them powerfully and genuinely at the center of their own story and sphere of influence, often creating new languages for what they do.
She is currently at work on her second book An Apprenticeship with Water.
Friends & Collaborations
Creative Mornings
Beauty, ritual, creative community
Patricia’s talk, An Apprenticeship with Water, explores water as teacher, ritual, and entryway into perception, embodiment, and transformation.
The conversation led to an ongoing creative relationship with Tina Roth Eisenberg, founder of CreativeMornings, whose work explores love, belonging, and the future of creative culture. Patricia has since collaborated with Tina on narrative and language development around these evolving ideas and initiatives.
Shou Sugi Ban House
Ancient, modern, sensory
So happy to bring my water practice to Shou Sugi Ban House, one of my most favorite sanctuaries. Our collaboration is born of a mutual belief in the transformative power of water and bringing together ancient and modern healing modalities and rituals. In the meeting of water, warmth, beauty, sacred space, exquisite ingredients, we step into our courage and meet ourselves newly. Departures Magazine, Centurian Magazine, Vogue
Anita Papantoniou
Cycladic home of RewildRestore
Anita is the founder of Eros Keros, the Cycladic home of RewildRestore, and a longtime lover of Koufonisia.
She first arrived on the island nearly thirty years ago and was immediately drawn to its raw beauty, ease, and elemental spirit. What began as enchantment slowly evolved into Eros Keros — a place shaped by decades of relationship with the island and a deep sensitivity to atmosphere, beauty, and belonging.
Anita has a rare gift for creating spaces that feel both grounding and expansive — where simplicity, warmth, and care invite people to settle fully into themselves and the rhythms of island life. The Aficionados
Global Bathing Culture
Ancient, modern, ritual, connection
An ongoing exploration of ritual, immersion, and cultural memory through the lens of global bathing culture.
Following an invitation to experience the World Sauna Forum, Patricia began documenting the evolving culture of sauna in Finland — from public bathhouses and smoke saunas to contemporary practitioners reimagining ritual, hospitality, and connection through heat, water, and gathering.
Her writing and photography explore bathing culture not as wellness trend, but as a living practice of presence, embodiment, belonging, and relationship to place.
Travel Well with Patricia Garcia-Gomez
by Alex Postman
Tell us about RewildRestore and how you got into this line of work.
RewildRestore is an ocean-centric, sensory-immersion retreat that I host on an unspoiled island in the Small Cyclades in Greece. It happens only a few times per year, and it is such an honor to witness the transformations that happen. There is something untamable about being fully present. Coming alive through the senses. Our experiences are about connecting to the healing power of water. Aegean blue. Ritual. Self. Each other. Nature. The unknown yet to be revealed.
The inspiration for RewildRestore started when I was living on the island of Naxos as part of a creative residency. Before I was here, I was deeply rooted in my Manhattan life as a creative director. When that changed suddenly, I took a pause. I wanted to get healthy, connect to my inner stirrings, be by water. I was living in a monastery, creating a site-specific multi-sensory installation, which brought me very close to the land, the elements, the people, and most especially Maria, a shepherdess who is the subject ofEarth is she. I began swimming in the Aegean every day (how could I not!). What started as a fun break in the day grew into a life-changing morning ritual. The combination of being grounded in my creative life, and immersing myself in wild, untamed beauty was very powerful. As an artist and intuitive healer, I wanted to share this.