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.
Undercurrent
2025
Watercolor on paper 5 x 8 in.
The invisible forces shaping change, the deep current beneath society’s surface where struggle and transformation meet.
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.
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.
Resting
2024
India Ink on Bristol 5 x 8 in.
It’s about giving yourself permission to pause and restore energy. The tender necessity to allow oneself to soften and simply be. Wrapped in warmth with the stillness of hibernation and quietly gathering strength for what comes next. Because even in rest, there is movement ... a silent kind of growth happening just beneath the surface.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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..
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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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
Winter Sol
2020
Acrylic on Tan Toned Paper 8 x 10 in.
There’s a quiet peace in the slow rhythm of winter. The snow seems to create a gentle hush that softens the edges of the world. The joy of the crisp air and the low sun warming your face while standing in the still beauty of the season.
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.
True Nature
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. 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.
Lady Blue
2018
Oil on Canvas 16 x 20 in.
I saw her in my mind as a figure made of light and movement. Soft curves flowing like water, her energy radiating out in quiet waves. There’s no clear line where her body ends and the air begins. She’s calm confidence, alive with quiet movement. An exploration of sensual presence and the unseen pulse that animates it.
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.