2025 - JO BLAKELY

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2025 ARTWORKS

Painting of a beautiful white woman, facing forward & seen from shoulders up with dark chin length hair, eyes closed, looking like she is resting, head tilted up, sunlight hitting face with neck stretched forward in shadow. A gold emergency blanket is wrapped around her shoulders. Behind is a green color block over grey blue. It looks like an edge of the green in top corner is torn & beginning to burn revealing the blue grey underneath. Painted in chiaroscuro, expressionistically realistic.

Painting of a white woman looking to the side a bit, with short dark hair with an emergency blanket in gold wrapped around her, looking like a one shoulder gown. Behind her are clouds and above her head is a huge boulder floating.

A woman with dark hair is in a seated swagger pose, head up, looking at viewer, her legs are manspreading, wearing a gold emergency blanket. She is holding an uprooted Bonsai Pine Tree. Behind her is a quilt pattern with the Morning Star pattern & Circles of Geese using the ‘flying geese quilting block’ in golds, ivory, and a rusty red and dark blue grey base. Flanking the quilt are large blue vases with images of white clouds and flying cranes, filled with gladiola in red and yellow. The green bench she sits on is trimmed with yellow caution tape and at her feet is a tangle of red danger tape.

An Asian woman with dark hair sitting on a chair with a red seat, with one leg up on chair & tucked under the other leg. She is in a darkened room with a bit of light from a window behind her lighting up a section of the room including the side of her face. She is folding blue & white origami paper with a Shippo pattern, wearing a gold emergency blanket like a short shift under a large white quilt comforter around her shoulders draping to the ground with a flying geese pattern pointing up towards her in red, gold, and white. Origami paper with many different patterns in blues and white is strewn on the ground at her feet. Outlined stylized bombs are dropping in the background on the wall, with only the flames from them in color. Stylized triangle roofed buildings and land are on fire in the background.

A black bowler hat is displayed on a tall sculptural stand next to an orange red tray holding a pair of sunglasses both atop a suitcase, atop a table. Slight glimpses of pictures are on different walls, & page divided in such a way we get a sense there is a hallway. We view this tableau from the side. Colors are neutral, greenish yellow, black, white, & a pop of orange red.

Interior corner, A round tall bookcase is surmounted by a large frog sculpture that has many baby frogs climbing on it. Hanging on one side of the bookcase is a portion of Japanese scroll of a tiger.
On the other side is a portion of an ivory kimono with gold cranes.
In front is a black wood chair with a pillow with a tiger motif.

A white woman with dark hair wearing a yellow gold garment sits in front of a small barrel shaped celadon table with a large literati style evergreen bonsai uprooted to be replanted on it. Her hands are around the root ball. Behind her and on one section on the side is a scene of a tall rock, with maples in fall with orange leaves, and clouds. The background weaves between the foreground graphically with colors and shapes color blocking the piece subtly. Colors are a beige neutral, yellow gold, orange, celadon & shades of green, blues, greys, with dark black & brown.

Two crows perched on a log, their feathers blue in the light. Warm Neutral abstracted background. Painted realistically but loosely.

A rugged man in middle age with long hair and beard, both with streaks of white. He is looking down, seen from shoulders up. In neutral colors.

An oil painting of a woman wearing a gold emergency blanket wrapped around her, seen from shoulders up.

Portrait (head & shoulders) painted vibrantly & realistically of Barry Humphries. He’s seen from below a bit, has a wry smile, and wears a dark pink jacket, an orange dotted tie, and white shirt. Background is color blocked dark purple and a pale green with a light pink stripe of a feather boa between.

An old man with messy white hair and full beard leans his head on his hands. Painted loose, but realistically.

Two Siamese cats reclining and cuddling close, on a blue blanket. One has its arm stretching across the painting, the other sitting as a loaf.

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Portraits
Still Life & Interiors
Personal Work
Illustration & Comics
- PARIS BALLAD
About/Contact