Kiesha Jean
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Three Body Problem
2026
Ink on Paper 5.5 x 8.5 in.
The three-body problem is a famous physics and classical mechanics puzzle that asks: Given the initial positions, masses, and velocities of three celestial bodies interacting through gravity, can you calculate their exact future paths forever?
Core Concepts
The Two-Body Solution: If you have two objects (like the Earth orbiting the Sun, or the Moon orbiting the Earth), the math is easy and predictable. Sir Isaac Newton solved this in the 1680s, and you can map out their paths with a simple formula.
Entering Chaos: As soon as you add a third body (such as the Sun, Earth, and Jupiter, or a triple-star system), the gravitational tugs from all three objects pull on each other simultaneously.
No General Formula: Unlike the two-body problem, the three-body problem has no general closed-form analytical solution. There is no single math equation that can predict where all three bodies will be at any arbitrary time in the future.
Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions: Small changes or tiny measurement errors in where the bodies start cause the system to diverge wildly. This makes long-term motion chaotic and unpredictable, potentially leading to collisions or a planet getting ejected into deep space.
Eye of the Storm
2026
Ink on Paper 5.5 x 8.5 in.
A moment of stillness in the middle of chaos and destruction. When everything around you feels unsettled and uncertain, there can be a small space where the noise falls away and you can catch your breathe. That quiet center, the pause between what has happened and what comes next. Even in the midst of upheaval, moments of calm can still be found.
P&P
2026 Ink on Paper 5.5 x 8.5 in.
Processing and Planning - what goes where and how.
A Tropical Distraction
2026
Oil Pastel on Board 17 x 27 in.
Beneath the Surface
2026
Acrylic on Paper 11 x 18 in.
Falling Leaves
2026
Acrylic on Paper 12 x 18 in.
THOUSAND CROSS SERIES No. 1
2026 | Oil on Canvas | 16 × 20 in.
There are moments when witnessing cruelty makes you realize that some things are not simply unpleasant or wrong by opinion, they feel deeply and undeniably wrong. That realization can raise difficult questions about where morality comes from and whether there is something greater behind it. For some, suffering creates doubt in God. For others, encountering suffering and injustice can strangely do the opposite .. it can make faith feel more necessary.
This series draws from the Catholic tradition of Mil Jesús (“Thousand Jesuses”), a devotion practiced especially in parts of Latin America on the Day of the Holy Cross. The tradition involves repeating the name of Jesus one thousand times as an act of prayer, protection, and faith through the difficulties of life.
I was drawn to the idea of repetition, like building a wall of faith against something dark. In this painting, the crosses multiply until they become a kind of visual prayer and a call for the strength and grace to stand against what threatens the light.
Sorry You Missed Sunset
2026
Watercolor 14 x 11 in.
The Other Side
2025
Oil on Canvas 24 x 18 in.
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.
Roots
2024
India Ink & 24K Gold Leaf 14 x 11 in.
Reflecting the strength and endurance it takes to grow through struggle without losing one’s integrity. When you dig deep enough and stay true, eventually you strike gold.
Kahn
2023
India ink on paper 8 x 5 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.
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.
Welcome to the Jungle
2026
acrylic and watercolor
12 x 9 in.
This piece moves like a jungle. Layers of pinks, greens, and inky black forms tangle and collide - lush, chaotic, alive, and a little unforgiving. Creating a space that feels playful at first, but unsettled underneath. The marks read like fragments of language - gestures, symbols, instincts - trying to make sense of a world that doesn’t always make sense back. Shapes emerge and dissolve, as if nothing can fully hold its form for long.
“Do you know where the fuck you are? You’re in the jungle, baby.” --Axl Rose
This piece moves through that idea of the 'jungle" - not as a place, but as a condition. What once felt contained to a few cities and industries has stretched into something broader, woven into daily life. Survival, ambition, illusion, and imbalance overlap in ways that are harder to ignore. The system isn’t as clean as it pretends to be. A transitional time when making it forward can feel uncertain, and where not everything is as it appears. That what once felt stable may not be.
There’s beauty here, but it isn’t calm. It’s active. It adapts. It survives. Sharper lines cut through like moments of clarity, hinting at a growing awareness—that the veil is thinning, that power isn’t always where it claims to be, that more people are beginning to see the landscape for what it is.
Because once you see the jungle, you move through it differently.
And still—there is color, rhythm, and life pushing through it all.
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.
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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.
Big Bang Theory
2026 Acrylic 10 x 12 in.
Where do we come from, where are we going?
I think about the many theories surrounding the beginning of our planet, the emergence of human life, and everything we have discovered since. We have spent thousands of years trying to understand our place in something so much larger than ourselves.
Big Bang Theory brings those layers of thought together, from the ancient and mysterious to the modern and unknown. It is a reflection on how far humanity has come and the feeling that we may be standing at the beginning of another great shift in understanding.
Perhaps we are still very early in the story.
Rare Earth No. 1
2026
8 x 10 in.
Acrylic on Paper
Rare Earth is a series rooted in a world before people, before language, before cities, before anyone thought to name what they were looking at.
These paintings move through an ancient palette: ochre and magenta, violet shadow, turquoise water, the bleached warmth of sediment pressed into stone over centuries. They carry the quiet feeling of discovery hidden within the natural world. The vein of color in a canyon wall. The tide pool that catches light when you aren't expecting it.
Earth, water, and time.
Rare Earth No. 2
2026
11 x 17 in.
Acrylic on Paper
Rare Earth is a series rooted in a world before people, before language, before cities, before anyone thought to name what they were looking at.
These paintings move through an ancient palette: ochre and magenta, violet shadow, turquoise water, the bleached warmth of sediment pressed into stone over centuries. They carry the quiet feeling of discovery hidden within the natural world. The vein of color in a canyon wall. The tide pool that catches light when you aren't expecting it.
Earth, water, and time.
Rare Earth No. 3
2026
11 x 17 in.
Acrylic on Paper
Rare Earth is a series rooted in a world before people, before language, before cities, before anyone thought to name what they were looking at.
These paintings move through an ancient palette: ochre and magenta, violet shadow, turquoise water, the bleached warmth of sediment pressed into stone over centuries. They carry the quiet feeling of discovery hidden within the natural world. The vein of color in a canyon wall. The tide pool that catches light when you aren't expecting it.
Earth, water, and time.
Rare Earth No. 4
2026
8 x 10 in.
Acrylic on Paper
Rare Earth is a series rooted in a world before people, before language, before cities, before anyone thought to name what they were looking at.
These paintings move through an ancient palette: ochre and magenta, violet shadow, turquoise water, the bleached warmth of sediment pressed into stone over centuries. They carry the quiet feeling of discovery hidden within the natural world. The vein of color in a canyon wall. The tide pool that catches light when you aren't expecting it.
Earth, water, and time.
Rare Earth No. 5
2026
5 x 7 in.
Acrylic on Paper
Rare Earth is a series rooted in a world before people, before language, before cities, before anyone thought to name what they were looking at.
These paintings move through an ancient palette: ochre and magenta, violet shadow, turquoise water, the bleached warmth of sediment pressed into stone over centuries. They carry the quiet feeling of discovery hidden within the natural world. The vein of color in a canyon wall. The tide pool that catches light when you aren't expecting it.
Earth, water, and time.
Rare Earth No. 9
2026
5 x 7 in.
Acrylic on Paper
Rare Earth is a series rooted in a world before people, before language, before cities, before anyone thought to name what they were looking at.
These paintings move through an ancient palette: ochre and magenta, violet shadow, turquoise water, the bleached warmth of sediment pressed into stone over centuries. They carry the quiet feeling of discovery hidden within the natural world. The vein of color in a canyon wall. The tide pool that catches light when you aren't expecting it.
Earth, water, and time.
Rare Earth No. 6
2026
5 x 7 in.
Acrylic on Paper
Rare Earth is a series rooted in a world before people, before language, before cities, before anyone thought to name what they were looking at.
These paintings move through an ancient palette: ochre and magenta, violet shadow, turquoise water, the bleached warmth of sediment pressed into stone over centuries. They carry the quiet feeling of discovery hidden within the natural world. The vein of color in a canyon wall. The tide pool that catches light when you aren't expecting it.
Earth, water, and time.
Rare Earth No. 7
2026
5 x 7 in.
Acrylic on Paper
Rare Earth is a series rooted in a world before people, before language, before cities, before anyone thought to name what they were looking at.
These paintings move through an ancient palette: ochre and magenta, violet shadow, turquoise water, the bleached warmth of sediment pressed into stone over centuries. They carry the quiet feeling of discovery hidden within the natural world. The vein of color in a canyon wall. The tide pool that catches light when you aren't expecting it.
Earth, water, and time.
Rare Earth No. 8
2026
5 x 7 in.
Acrylic on Paper
Rare Earth is a series rooted in a world before people, before language, before cities, before anyone thought to name what they were looking at.
These paintings move through an ancient palette: ochre and magenta, violet shadow, turquoise water, the bleached warmth of sediment pressed into stone over centuries. They carry the quiet feeling of discovery hidden within the natural world. The vein of color in a canyon wall. The tide pool that catches light when you aren't expecting it.
Earth, water, and time.
Respite No. 1
2025
Watercolor on Paper 5x7 in.
This small series came out of a pause I didn’t know I needed. After a long stretch that felt heavy, gray, and unrelenting, the sun finally broke and so did something in me. These pieces hold that shift.
A friend came through town, someone I hadn’t seen in a while, and for two days we just sat in the warmth and talked. Nothing complicated. Just light, air, laughter and presence. It felt like my body remembered how to exhale.
Respite is about that moment when you’re not fully out of the heaviness yet but something has changed. A window opens. Light gets in. And for a second, maybe longer, you feel like yourself again.
Interstellar
2025
24k gold, watercolor & acrylic
11 x 15 in.
because perspective matters
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.
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.
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.
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.
Golden Daydream
2025
watercolor ink & acrylic
6 x 4 in.
Golden Daydream is a small reflection of time spent hiking through the hills of West Sonoma County, inspired by long walks through redwoods, coastlines, open sky, and shifting light.
Soft color moves like sunlight across the landscape, while delicate lines wander like thoughts.
This piece holds the quiet rhythm of being alone in nature, where the mind softens and begins to wander ... drifting between what is seen and what is felt.
Renewal
2025
Watercolor on Paper 9x15 in.
Renewal is a return to calm offering a moment of intentional stillness, a quiet exhale. It unfolds in a soft symmetry that feels steady and restorative. The forms echo natural botanical and wing-like shapes, gently alive.
This piece leans into patience and healing. Growth can come through rest and starting again with a clearer sense of center. Allowing time to balance, realign and let things settle. What was scattered will begin to find its place again.
True Nature
2025
Acrylic Ink on Tan Toned Paper 9x12in.
Balancing the instinct to be seen with the safety of concealment, expressing the complexity of navigating visibility as both artist and woman. True Nature captures a moment of emotional camouflage, where vulnerability meets artistry.
A friend once said to me that it felt like I was hiding behind my art, he was right. True Nature is about that delicate balance of wanting to be seen, but not fully. It is the art of revealing just enough of yourself while still keeping your soul protected.
Drivin Down a Country Road
2018
Watercolor on 300gsm Coldpress 11x14 in.
A warm reflection of a late summer drive in Northern California. Capturing the calm golden light of the day’s end and the freedom of open horizons..
Stay Afloat
2026
Oil on Canvas 10 x 8 in.
A mother and child drift down the river splashing, playing, held in a moment that feels light and easy on the surface.
But beneath that ease is effort and exhaustion fighting against the forces pulling down. The current keeps moving, and the mother is quietly working to keep them both above it, holding space, creating calm, even when the water isn’t.
Stay Afloat lives in that balanced between joy and survival.
Skyfall
2026
Acrylic on Canvas 8 x 10in.
Respite No. 2
2025
Watercolor on Paper 5x7 in.
This small series came out of a pause I didn’t know I needed. After a long stretch that felt heavy, gray, and unrelenting, the sun finally broke and so did something in me. These pieces hold that shift.
A friend came through town, someone I hadn’t seen in a while, and for two days we just sat in the warmth and talked. Nothing complicated. Just light, air, laughter and presence. It felt like my body remembered how to exhale.
Respite is about that moment when you’re not fully out of the heaviness yet but something has changed. A window opens. Light gets in. And for a second, maybe longer, you feel like yourself again.
Respite No. 3
2025
Watercolor on Paper 5x7 in.
This small series came out of a pause I didn’t know I needed. After a long stretch that felt heavy, gray, and unrelenting, the sun finally broke and so did something in me. These pieces hold that shift.
A friend came through town, someone I hadn’t seen in a while, and for two days we just sat in the warmth and talked. Nothing complicated. Just light, air, laughter and presence. It felt like my body remembered how to exhale.
Respite is about that moment when you’re not fully out of the heaviness yet but something has changed. A window opens. Light gets in. And for a second, maybe longer, you feel like yourself again.
Organized Chaos
2026
Water Life
2017
Acrylic on Bristol 8 x 8 in.
Created lakeside at a picnic table while boat in camping on Lake Sonoma, Water Life flows with the calm rhythm of nature and the movement of water. The piece captures the peaceful balance and vitality found when surrounded by the nature.
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.
Masked
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.
UNDECIDED
2019
INDIA INK
A female form holds center while everything around her moves.
Lines split, curl, and branch in different directions ... each one carrying a task, a thought, a feeling pulling for attention. Some are steady, some restless, some barely formed. All of them live in the same space at once.
The balancing act where nothing has landed yet, everything is present, waiting to be chosen, or let go.
Energy Flows
2019
Ink on Paper 5 x 7 in.
Energy Flows is a meditative study in movement, growth, and artistic surrender. A quiet turning point, loosening the grip on perfection.
The Flower Vase
India Ink on Tan Toned Paper
Drawn in the early morning hours at a side job waiting for members to check in and admiring a lovely floral display on the counter.
Zen Bird
2019
Acrylic on Gesso Board 18 x 24 in.
Inspired from the colors of the Red-breasted Nuthatch and the calm energy birds bring into the world.
Studies show that listening to bird sounds is healing and relaxing, reducing stress by lowering cortisol levels and improving mood. Birdsong can also reduce anxiety, depression, and paranoia, with benefits that can last for hours. This occurs because birdsong signals safety and peace, tapping into primal instincts that help the nervous system relax and creating a calming soundscape. For me not just the song but the stunning beauty of birds fills me with a sense of calm and joy.
Making Waves
2017
acrylic on Bristol 5 x 5 in.
This piece came from thinking about how a single pebble creates ripples that move far beyond where it first lands. I like to think our actions work the same way, even the small, good ones ... sending out energy that can grow and make a difference over time.
Fear Less
Kiesha Jean 2018
Oil on Canvas
30 x 40 in.