JO BLAKELY - jo blakely gallery

My current work is exploring ideas around climate change, borders and the changes climate change is making, migrations, emergency, and navigating it all while caring for the earth and life.

A Sense of Direction, 2024 Oil on Board, 25cm. sq.

My Heart is my Compass, 2024 Oil on Board, 9.8”sq.

A woman seem close up with dark hair that merges into what looks like fabric of space, a night sky of sparkling stars, she is wearing an emergency blanket, sitting hunched over with one arm wrapped around the earth, chin resting on earth, looking pensively and protective of the earth, eyes slightly down.

Gravity, 2024 Oil on Board, 10” sq.

Windrose, 2024 Oil on Board, 10x10”

A white woman seen close up, nude from shoulders up. And seen from the back, though her head is turned towards us looking over her shoulder. Her long dark hair is wet. She looks annoyed or troubled. Behind her is a wind rose map. Painted realistically but loosely.

Winds of Change, 2024 Oil on cradled wood panel, 8x10”

A round closeup painting of a woman with dark hair resting her chin on her hand, which in turn is resting on a wooden caution barrier. She is wearing a gold emergency blanket. Behind is map like pattern of land and water as seen from above.

Border of Danger, 2024 Oil on 9.5” round board.

A picture of two lovers with short dark hair one wearing a white sweater, the other a white t-shirt in a passionate embrace and kissing. We don’t see much of their faces.

Lovers, 2024 Oil on Watercolor Paper 8 x 10”

Bird of Paradise - Glade Oil on Canvas 24 x 30” 2024

Painting of daomadan (female warrior) from Peking Opera. She is looking side eyed and sneering.

Daomadan - Oil on Canvas Paper, 12 x 16, 2021

A male figure from Peking opera wearing a false beard and headdress with turquoise dragon & phoenix, and shou symbol, along with red Pom poms and pearls, and beaded tassels, and pheasant tail feathers.

Ebisu painted as a woman shown close up on face which looks serene.

Ebisu, close up detail. Oil on Canvas, 2021

Ebisu painted as a woman wesring a lot of symbolic fashion, including a boro skirt and the goggles and white headwrap of Ama pearl divers, sitting in a boat surrounded by fish. Flags move behind her

Ebisu - Shichifukujin series. Oil on Canvas, 36x48, 2021 Available

Beautiful young Native woman wearing ribbon skirt holding an infant in one arm, a basket of corn in the other, standing in a cornfield looking direct. Colors are bright with a lot of green.

Winona & Child in the Cornfields, Oil on Canvas 22x28", 2022 Available. Profits go to Winona to help in her studies. She is Kiikaapoa, Bear Clan and a community activist.

Painting of an Asian woman short dark hair, wearing a grey party dress, hands in lap, seated on a bench with red Persian rug and Chinese pillows. Behind is a grey drop cloth, which has caught on fire in places.

Smokescreen (inspired by a pastel piece by Judy Drew) Oil on Paper, 9x12", 2022

Portrait of an androgynous person, head tilted, eyes to the side, looking at something we can't see. Colors are black, greys, greens, blue and a pop of yellow, and skin tone is warm.

The Regard, Oil on Masonite 9x12” 2023, (Sold)

A woman wearing a silvery grey scarf knotted to the side, a colorful pink green, grey and white top, painted loosely, and very large beads around her neck. She is sitting on a suggestion of a patterned banquet which divides the background, and above is floral paper. Overall the painting is very patterned and busy, but her face is quiet and peaceful looking, she has very rosy cheeks and long dark hair we see under the scarf a bit on one side.

Seer Oil on Masonite, 9x12, 2023 (Sold)

Woman peeking coyly behind collar of a big black coat, loosely painted suggestions of koi fish and a gold waterfall on the coat.

Koi, Suiseki Series Digital Painting.

Back view of curvy dark skinned woman standing nude in water, to bum, hip jutted out, hair blowing in wind, gold necklace stream trails along her back.

Wind & Water-Suiseki Series. Digital Painting.

The Gold Between, Suiseki Series Digital Painting.