jo blakely gallery - JO BLAKELY

Recent work, much of it exploring mental health, migration, climate change. Please inquire if interested.

A woman with long red hair holds a variety of maps against her body as if it were clothing. The background is dark.

Home, 2026 Oil on Stretched Canvas, 16 x 20”

A beautiful white woman with dark cropped curly hair is wearing a gold & silver emergency blanket with gold on the outside and it shaped on her like a fancy cloak with a silver high collar. She has her arms around & protective of a young child, maybe 7 or so, also wearing an emergency blanket, with only the silver side seen. The child is facing us looking direct. The woman has eyes also direct with a suspicious, but strong look. Behind is a building wall in dark grey with a large map on it, a tiny portion of it burning.

What We Love, We Protect, 2026 Oil on Watercolor Paper, 9 x 12”

Woman wearing emergency blanket in front of Portolan style map.

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

A woman with shoulder length red hair wearing a purple top is walking forward holding a burning match. Behind her is a green banner that reads “Patriarchy” in lighter green letters in all caps, that is burning. Her eyes turn to see the flames devouring the banner.

Match Made In Heaven, 2026 Oil on Board, 12 x 12”

A beautiful woman with very short black hair with tight curls is looking face on, with a gold emergency blanket wrapped around her, one hand clutching an edge. Behind is a pastoral landscape scene less realistically painted in greens, with a rosy sunrise sky.

Dawn in a Safe Place, 2026 Oil on Canvas Paper

A beautiful woman with short dark hair wearing a gold emergency blanket is walking in front of a rock wall carrying a small root ball with two peach cuttings. Behind is a landscape of houses and tall trees in blue, and a sky and ground in peach tones. Making it look very surreal and eerie. It looks like fire is all around. We see a tiny bit of another emergency blanket, another person is in front of her. They are walking away from it.

Garde La Pêche, 2026 oil on Watercolor paper ~ 9 x 15”

Cassandra, 2026 Oil on Watercolor paper, 10 x 15cm/6 x 8”

Two white feminine hands holding a ball of caution tape in yellow & black stripes, without lettering. One hand is above the ball of tape, the other is below. Behind is a grey backdrop, portions of which are burning away, with black behind.

There Were Warnings, 2026 Oil on Canvas Board, 7 x 9”

A white hand with fingers splayed clutching a piece of silver grey emergency blanket twisted.

Twister, 2026 Oil on Canvas Board, 6 x 8”

A beautiful white woman with short dark curly hair seen from shoulders up, leans her head on her hand. She wears a gold emergency blanket, with part formed into a high collar, making it look like a gold cloak. Behind is a dark green background with a few lines of gold like kintsugi.

Kintsugi, 2026 Oil on Paper, 7 x 7”

White woman with long dark hair, looking annoyed, arms crossed, wearing a gold emergency blanket like a robe. Behind her is a large globe map of both hemispheres with a large compass rose in gold behind her head like a halo or crown.

Navigating, 2024 Oil on Masonite 18 x 24”

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

The Weight #2 Oil on paper, 9 x 12”

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.

The Weight Oil on Paper, 11 x 14”

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.

A light Oil on board, 10” sq.

Resistance Oil on Board, 10” sq.

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 colors. At her feet are a bunch of red danger tapes but so dark and mixed up you can hardly see them, and the green bench she is on is bordered with yellow caution tapes. One like piping.

Uprooted - Flying Geese Series, 2025 24 x 36” Acrylic on MDF Board

A woman has her head and shoulders covered with a gold emergency blanket.she is looking down slightly. The background is dark black.

Untitled, 2025 Oil on Panel 11 cm (4.33”) sq.

A woman wearing an emergency blanket and a gold chain with an engraved compass design on it, behind a part of a round globe map

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

A woman Sean with emergency blanket held around her shoulders with one hand, behind is colorful Kilim with various symbols, birds & an upward arrow most noticeable.

Nomad, 2024 Oil on Canvas

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

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)

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 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)

Lower tangled trunk of a tree with sunlit white bark, showing many branches and at the base, tangled up among the trunk branches is yellow caution tape.

Caution Tape, 2023 Oil on Canvas, 24 x 36”

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.