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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 mothers who rise to protect, carrying both ferocity and grace in their wings. An elevated 'Mama Bear'.
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.
Exploring the interplay between personal freedom and emotional self-mastery. The work pulses with motion, each mark suggests wings unfurling, currents shifting, and the invisible forces of freedom in flight. The flowing black strokes represent inner resistance and strength, the turquoise evokes moments of clarity, intuition, and spiritual release. The yellow recalls solar energy and the light that breaks through during transformation. It's a dance between what must be released and what must be reclaimed.
Created during a time of intense reflection while rooted in the rich natural surroundings of Sonoma County. Freebird is a celebration of resilience, self-direction, and joy.
Caution
2025
Acrylic on Bristol paper 11 x 17 in
Confronting the seductive instability and chaos of romantic love through an abstract visual language charged with tension. Bold strokes of black loop and tangle across a searing yellow field, echoing the emotional disarray and warning signals that often accompany desire. “CAUTION” is both a cry and a mirror, cautioning the viewer against the lure and illusions of idealized love. Hearts float and fracture amid the chaos, symbols of hope pierced by experience. Warning becomes poetry. A piece that interrogates vulnerability with fearless clarity.
Boundaries
2025
Acrylic ink on Bristol paper 11 x 17 in.
An abstract 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.
Let it serve as a daily 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 into a bold symphony of gesture and color. Vivid green lines dart, curl, and sprout across the surface like wild growth bursting from fertile ground, while heavy black brushstrokes carve a sense of structure and history into the chaos. The resulting tension is alive, flourishing and writhing, like nature itself reclaiming space.
Though abstract in form, the work carries unmistakable life force. The organic movement and untamed rhythm is part ritual, part rebellion. Spring Green is a season of becoming, where growth is not always pretty, but always powerful.
Destined
2025
Acrylic Ink on Bristol Paper 11 x 17 in.
Destined is the beginning of a new series, but also a reflection of something more personal: confidence in my own direction, even if it took a few detours to get here. It is about moments of spontaneous freedom and surrender to movement and intuition. A bold meditation on self-trust, timing, and the power of saying yes to what feels right.
Beneath the Pressure
2025
Acrylic Ink on Bristol 1 1 x 17 in.
Beneath the Pressure is the first work in Kiesha’s evolving gestural series—an unfiltered response to a moment of accumulated frustration, fatigue, and emotional weight. Painted in a state of near-discard, this piece began as an act of emotional defiance. The artist had reached a point where tasks kept unraveling, interruptions wouldn’t cease, and even the smallest victories felt impossible. With no clear outcome in mind, she turned to the page to release it all.
The result is raw and dynamic. Bold black arcs crash through the composition like crossed-out expectations. Fine red marks stir beneath and around them—fragmented, coded, frantic. There is push and pull. There is resistance and—somehow—grace. What was once almost thrown away became a map of transformation, a visual record of the body and spirit reclaiming control one stroke at a time.
Far from chaos, the finished piece radiates clarity. Beneath the Pressure is not an outburst—it’s a purge. And in its honesty, it reveals what many experience but rarely name: that perseverance doesn’t always look graceful—it often begins as survival, scratched onto the page.
Red Lines
2025
Acrylic Ink on Bristol 11 x 17 in.
A powerful act of visual dissent —confronting the unspoken rules and cultural expectations imposed on women, especially those navigating motherhood, autonomy, and leadership outside conventional systems. Bold black strokes curve and clash across the surface, 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 rhythm in the motion, breath in the composition and 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.
In Embrace, Kiesha Jean captures the quiet beauty of a moment shared between two independent souls. Rendered in delicate ink lines, the intertwined figures are neither sexualized nor confined by cliché. Instead, they exist in mutual recognition—a brief but meaningful exchange of emotional presence. The drawing honors the rare, unspoken intimacy of being fully seen and gently held, without need for justification or future. It’s a celebration of emotional safety, mutual respect, and the sacredness of understanding—offered, not owed.
Kahn
2023
India ink on paper 5 x 8 in
Kahn is a tightly coiled vision of power—restrained yet unmistakably assertive. Kiesha’s use of red and sepia-toned ink imbues the figure with both ceremonial gravitas and mythic force. Loosely inspired by the Mongolian empire and the indomitable Genghis Khan, this composition pulses with the spirit of a forward-charging warrior, caught mid-roar.
With its stylized, sinewy musculature and swirling ornamental motifs, Kahn bridges the primal and the divine. The figure seems to emerge from another plane—part beast, part legend—etched with history and command. Kiesha’s minimal yet intricate inkwork reveals a portrait of conquest, identity, and legacy. A small but potent homage to those who carve empires from raw earth and fire.
A Walk In The Woods
2019
Etching on scratchboard 5 x 7 in.
Etched in white on black, A Walk In The Woods is not just an image—it is an act of defiance, a declaration of inner freedom made in the quiet corners of confinement. Created while Kiesha was in a relationship she no longer wanted, in a home she no longer wanted to be in, the piece served as an emotional lifeline.
The composition is a fantasy of peace: a stylized figure in organic flow walks through a forest where grasses curl and trees hum with motion. Every mark carved into the scratchboard became a release—each line an invitation to step away from noise, into solitude and soulspace.
What makes this piece quietly extraordinary is that it isn’t born from escape, but from survival. The artist may not have been able to leave yet—but she went anyway, on paper. And now, with time passed and peace reclaimed, it stands as a gentle monument to the human instinct for beauty even in darkness.
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.
Happy Days
2025
Acrylic ink on hardboard 18 x 24 in.
Happy Days is 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, each mark a record of a real-time emotional state, layered patiently in intervals of honest happiness. The vibrant, organic shapes feel like music ~ freeform, celebratory, and unburdened. The composition burst with floral, aquatic and calligraphic gestures that bloom together in a bright field of movement and feeling.
This piece is a reflection of the belief that happiness doesn’t need to be loud to be powerful. It offers a space of spontaneous beauty, 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. Created during an uncertain and difficult season, this piece didn’t come from stability, but a deep instinct to move forward.
The painting evokes the feeling of deep water, engulfing and liberating. At the center, an abstract feminine form spirals upward in a fluid, dance-like motion, suggesting surrender and resistance. Even in the lowest, most 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.
See Yah
2024
India Ink on Coldpress 300gsm
Channeling the thrill of a long-awaited goodbye. Not a bitter end, but a beautiful one. After enduring with patience and 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 steeped in patience and power. See Yah captures the exact moment someone finally walks out of a chapter they’ve long outgrown. Not bitter, not broken—just done. The kind of "later" that echoes with self-respect.
The silhouetted figure, formed entirely through contrast and flow, is captured mid-stride, casting one last glance over the shoulder. The negative space becomes a presence ~ a room once occupied, being left behind. Swirls radiate like held-in energy finally released, full of the momentum that comes after endurance.
See Yah is a snapshot of that stride and that breath. That final look back before the next beginning. It holds joy, release, and a bit of a wink. A reminder that sometimes walking away isn't escape. It's evolution.
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.
Charge captures a transformational moment—a time when Kiesha had carved out a life of her own, but still stood face-to-face with the deeper, quieter work of becoming her fullest self. As a single mother, provider, and artist, she had no choice but to charge forward. But this work reveals the truth beneath that momentum: that the real battle wasn’t just external—it was internal.
Waves of energy, painted in forceful strokes of turquoise and ochre, sweep through the panel like wind and spirit in motion. At the center, a horse’s head takes shape—emerging not as a gentle presence, but as a force breaking through its own storm. It gallops through limitation, through fear, through personal illusions once clung to for safety. It is the kind of power that does not ask permission.
This is not a painting of chaos—it is one of alignment. Charge honors that moment of radical self-honesty when you stop blaming others and instead take the reins. It is about strength, healing, solitude, and grit. And it is about 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.
Thoughts Run Wild is an intimate glimpse into the quiet, solitary moment of allowing the mind to dream freely. This work was born from a night spent lying in bed, letting imagined lives unfold like stories across the ceiling. It is a study in introspection—of the rare and 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. There is no cage here, no defined edge—only movement. Only permission.
This piece is both personal and universal: a tribute to the late-night ritual of wondering what if, and a gentle celebration of the freedom found in our private reveries.
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
Bull's-Eye
Ink on Bristol 5 x 7 in.
Zen Bird
2019
Acrylic on Gesso Board 18 x 24 in.
Lady Blue
2018
Oil on Canvas 16 x 20 in.
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 of white, green, 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.
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.