NOTICE - I am slow to update website … always. Please contact if you have any questions or would like to purchase a painting you have seen in person or on social media that is not yet appearing on the site or in the online store. - kj
Kiesha Jean
Original Artworks currently available for purchase.
Hold the Line
2025
Acrylic ink & Watercolor on paper 11 x 15 in.
This piece started with the idea of double yellow lines on a road, don’t cross. Life has a way of testing limits and pushing past boundaries though, and here the line has definitely been crossed. The gold center holds steady and hums with quiet order, while the surrounding black fields ignite with fractured energy colliding in restless rhythm. It’s about tension, breaking points, and how even when things shatter, something bold and alive can come out of it.
Free Bird
2025
India Ink on watercolor paper 12 x 16 in.
The soaring spirit of an eagle in motion. Powerful wings patterned with gracefully flowing lines. The bold black form against white space emphasizes strength, while the intricate details speak to beauty, rhythm, and heart. This work honors that duality: the quiet strength, beauty, and resilience of people who rise to protect, carrying both ferocity and grace in their wings.
FAFO
2025
India Ink on watercolor paper 12 x 16 in.
FAFO { Fuck Around and Find Out } takes the soaring form of an eagle and fuses it with a message about limits and protection. While the phrase is blunt, the meaning is clear: patience, kindness, and respect have their place, but there comes a point when strength must rise. This work speaks to the instinct to protect, whether in nature or in ourselves—and the power that awakens when boundaries are pushed too far.
Freebird
2025
Acrylic ink on paper 11 x 17 in.
A celebration of resilience, self-direction, and joy. The black represents inner resistance and strength, the turquoise moments of clarity, intuition, and spiritual release. The yellow recalls solar energy and the light that breaks through during transformation. Wings unfurling, currents shifting and the invisible forces of freedom in flight.
Caution
2025
Acrylic on Bristol paper 11 x 17 in
Exploring the seductive instability of romantic love. Bold strokes of black loop and tangle across a searing yellow field, echoing the emotional disarray and warning signals that often accompany desire. The central motif, a figure ensnared within a ribbon marked “CAUTION”, is a cry and a mirror, cautioning the viewer against the illusions of idealized love. Hearts float and fracture amid the chaos, symbols of hope pierced by experience. Warning becomes poetry in a piece that interrogates vulnerability with fearless clarity.
Boundaries
2025
Acrylic ink on Bristol paper 11 x 17 in.
A visual anthem for reclaiming one’s energy and power. The assertive red gestures speak to the need for fierce protection of space, while the turquoise motifs offer emototional clarity, calm and resilence. This piece reflects the beauty and necessity of say NO, not from fear but from self-respect. Created in a moment of hard -won clarity, 'Boundaries’ is a layered meditation on strength, healing, and the sacredness of one’s own internal landscape. A reminder that protecting your peace is an act of love.
Spring Green
2025
Acrylic ink on Bristol Paper 11x17 in.
Channeling the fierce renewal energy of spring. Flourishing and writhing, like nature reclaiming space. Green lines dart, curl, and sprout across the surface like wild growth bursting from fertile ground. While the black carves a sense of structure into the chaos.
Growth is not always pretty, but always powerful. The organic movement and untamed rhythm is paret ritual and part rebellion. Spring Green is about the life force that powers through a season of becoming,
Destined
2025
Acrylic Ink on Bristol Paper 11 x 17 in.
A reflection of confidence in your own direction, even if it takes a few detours. It is about moments of spontaneous freedom and surrender to movement and intuition. A meditation on self-trust, timing, and the power of saying yes to what feels right even when it defies logic.
Beneath the Pressure
2025
Acrylic Ink on Bristol 1 1 x 17 in.
An unfiltered response to a moment of accumulated frustration, fatigue, and emotional weight. Sometimes tasks keep unraveling, interruptions will not cease, and even the smallest victories feel impossible. This is a visual record of the body and spirit reclaiming control one stroke at a time.
Raw and dynamic bold black arcs crash through the composition like crossed-out expectations. Beneath the Pressure is not an outburst, it’s a purge. And in its honesty, it reveals what many experience, Perseverance doesn’t always look graceful and it often begins as survival.
Red Lines
2025
Acrylic Ink on Bristol 11 x 17 in.
Confronting the unspoken rules and cultural expectations imposed on women, especially those navigating motherhood, autonomy, and leadership outside conventional systems. Black strokes intersected and punctuated by precise red marks that are symbols of social boundaries, wounds, and warnings.
These “red lines” are not literal constraints but emotional and societal ones: expectations about how to parent, how to earn, how to exist. Sweeping gestures resist them at every turn, crossing over, breaking through, doubling back and charting a nonlinear but resolute path toward something more human, more whole.
Despite the tension, the work also carries a kind of hope. It honors the nonlinear journey toward a more meaningful, liberated life. There’s a sense that even when the road is crooked and marked with resistance, there’s room to move freely, to question, to keep walking toward something better.
The Embrace
2022
Ink on Paper 6 x 8 in.
The quiet beauty of a moment shared between two independent souls. The intertwined figures exist in mutual recognition, a brief but meaningful exchange of emotional presence. Honoring the rare, unspoken intimacy of being fully seen and gently held, without need for justification or future. A celebration of emotional safety, mutual respect, and the sacredness of understanding.
Kahn
2023
India ink on paper 5 x 8 in
A tightly coiled vision of power, restrained yet unmistakably assertive. The use of red and brown ink imbues the figure with ceremonial gravitas and mythic force. Loosely inspired by the Mongolian empire and Genghis Khan, this composition pulses with the spirit of a forward-charging warrior. The figure seems to emerge from another plane etched with history. With its stylized musculature and ornamental motifs, it bridges the primal and the divine.
See Yah
2024
India Ink on Coldpress 300gsm
That exact moment someone walks out of a chapter they’ve long outgrown. The silhouetted figure is captured mid-stride, casting one last glance over the shoulder. That final look back before the next beginning. It holds joy, release, and a bit of a wink. After enduring with patience & grace and being stuck somewhere too long, you finally get to leave. Not because you broke, but because you broke through!
A spirited exit, an unapologetic farewell. Not bitter, just done. The kind of "later" that echoes with self-respect. A reminder that sometimes walking away isn't escape. It's evolution.
Out for a Walk
2019
Etching on scratchboard 5 x 7 in.
A gentle monument to the human instinct for beauty even in darkness. I needed quite, I needed to go for a walk and breathe. That was not possible in the moment so I drew myself out for a lovely walk. Many years later this piece still brings me much peace and joy. The original is mine but I do have re-creations of it in many forms available in my shop for purchase.
Grow
2019
Etching on Scratchboard 5x7in.
A small but potent piece reaching for growth even when surroundings feel stifling. Delicate floral forms precisely etched into board. Fractured on the right side, a leaf explodes in a frenzied moment of emotional rupture. The quiet fight to overcome.
Happy Days
2025
Acrylic ink on hardboard 18 x 24 in.
A time capsule of joy. Painted only outdoors on warm, sunny days when there was a feeling of light and playful ease. It is a slow, year-long accumulation, layered patiently in intervals of honest happiness. A quiet reminder that our lightest, most fleeting moments matter and that they deserve to last.
Dancing in the Deep
2018
Oil on Canvas 16 x 20 inches
There are moments in life when we find ourselves fully submerged ... emotionally, financially, spiritually. The feeling of engulfing deep water. At the center, an abstract feminine form spirals upward in a fluid, dance-like motion, suggesting surrender and resistance. Even in uncertain depths, we can still dance. We can still create joy.
Dancing in the Deep is a testament to how beauty can rise even when everything else is sinking.
Drivin Down a Country Road
2018
Watercolor on 300gsm Coldpress 11x14 in.
Inspired by a long slow drive during a lovely late summer sunset in Northern California.
Charge
2023
Oil on Panel 24 x 36 in.
Waves of energy sweep through the panel like wind and spirit in motion. At the center, a horse’s head takes shape, emerging as a force breaking through its own storm. It gallops through illusions once clung to for safety.
Charge honors that moment of radical self-honesty when you stop blaming others and take the reins. It is about strength, healing, solitude, and grit. Finally gaining the clarity and energy to run free—not just in the world, but within yourself.
Thoughts Run Wild
2019
Ink on Paper 5 x 7 in.
A glimpse into the quiet, solitary moment of allowing the mind to dream freely. Letting imagined lives unfold like stories across the ceiling. The sacred space where desire is given permission to wander.
Rendered in flowing, windswept lines, the figure is seen from behind, vulnerable yet composed. Her hair, an extension of her inner world, streams outward in long, unbroken waves, as if thought itself had become visible. A tribute to the late-night ritual of wondering what if and the freedom found in our private reveries.
Blooming
2018
Acrylic on Canvas 18x24 in.
Painted during a moment of frustration, feeling confined by circumstance but still determined to evolve. The lower half bursts open like a flower mid-bloom with layered strokes and a radiating gold force. The Victorian-style wallpaper above represents containment, civility, and tradition. The vintage motif also conveys a sense of expectations and rules often imposed on women. But the bloom doesn’t care. It claims its space, takes root and rises.
This piece captures the transformative power of emotional honesty. It is about finding your own way to bloom.
Silence is Golden
Acrylic on Black Board
True Nature
2025
Acrylic Ink on Tan Toned Paper 9x12in.
M.
2024
Ink on Paper 9 x 12 in.
2025
Acrylic Ink on Tan Toned Paper 9x12in.
2025
Acrylic Ink on Tan Toned Paper 9x12in.
Energy Flows
2019
Ink on Paper 5 x 7 in.
Energy Flows is a meditative study in movement, growth, and artistic surrender. Originally created in 2019 during Kiesha’s early exploration with brush pens, the piece was tucked away in a notebook—unseen, uncelebrated—for over six years.
Now revisited with new eyes, Energy Flows reveals itself as a quiet turning point: the moment when the artist began to loosen her grip on perfection and embrace the expressive fluidity of line. Undulating ink waves radiate from central floral forms—each petal and stroke pulsing with intention and raw immediacy. The tension between order and release, control and letting go, is where this work finds its voice.
It’s a sketch in name only—visually lush, emotionally grounded, and spiritually honest.
The Flower Vase
Zen Bird
2019
Acrylic on Gesso Board 18 x 24 in.
Lady Blue
2018
Oil on Canvas 16 x 20 in.
Making Waves
2017
acrylic on Bristol 5 x 5 in.
Water Life
2017
Acrylic on Bristol 8 x 8 in.
Heat Wave
Acrylic on Bristol 8 x 8 in.
Spring Bloom
Watercolor on 300gsm Coldpress Paper 11 x 14 in.
Fear Less
Kiesha Jean 2018
Oil on Canvas
30 x 40 in.
Watercolor Pinstripes
KIESHA JEAN 2018
Watercolor on 140lb 300 gsm Canson Coldpress
11 x 14 in.