Joli’s books
The 7 Habits of Master Procrastinators Who Somehow Manage to Survive: A Resistance Manual.
A refreshing, counterintuitive take on productivity and procrastination.
Rather than portraying procrastination as a flaw or character weakness, executive coach and bestselling author @Joli.Artist reframes it as a trait that can be harnessed and leveraged creatively and productively.
This isn't another book on how to become a productivity robot. Here, @Joli.Artist pushes back against traditional productivity advice that glorifies relentless optimization, ice baths at dawn, chugging Soylent smoothies, or scheduling your life down to the nanosecond. Forget rigid routines and hustle-culture clichés. Instead, Joli introduces techniques such as Productive Procrastination, Task Pairing, and Time-Bending—tools designed to align productivity with the natural tendencies of a procrastinating mind.
With humor, candor, and deeply relatable insights, Joli explores procrastination as a misunderstood behavior. You'll learn how to channel avoidance into meaningful progress while balancing ambition with guilt-free rest. You'll also discover how to break free from perfectionism's paralysis and, yes, actually finish what you start (most of the time).
Now take a breath, grab a cozy spot, put off whatever you were supposed to be doing, and start reading. (You can always finish it later.)
Experimental
Original oil painting on canvas.
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Size: 48 × 36 in
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“…Phenomenal woman,
That’s me.
Men themselves have wondered
What they see in me.
They try so much
But they can’t touch
My inner mystery.
When I try to show them,
They say they still can’t see.
I say,
It’s in the arch of my back,
The sun of my smile,
The ride of my breasts,
The grace of my style.
I’m a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That’s me.
Now you understand
Just why my head’s not bowed.
I don’t shout or jump about
Or have to talk real loud.
When you see me passing,
It ought to make you proud.
I say,
It’s in the click of my heels,
The bend of my hair,
the palm of my hand,
The need for my care.
’Cause I’m a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That’s me.”
— Excerpt from “Phenomenal Woman,” a poem by Dr. Maya Angelou
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Original oil painting on canvas.
1 of 1. No prints produced.
Size: 40 × 40 in
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Original oil painting on canvas.
1 of 1. No prints produced.
Size: 40 × 40 in
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Original oil painting on canvas.
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Size: 40 × 40 in
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POWER
Original oil painting on canvas.
“The Rake” possesses an insatiable desire that is infectious and deliciously unrestrained. Their reputation precedes them and the rumours are true, yet all that you desire is for them to cast their ravenous gaze upon you.
Size: 24 × 48 in
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Original oil painting on canvas.
“The Prime Minister” emerges from JoliArtist’s “Art From An Alternate Timeline” series as a reimagining of leadership, power, and representation. Draped in ceremonial robes and rendered with regal composure, the subject occupies a role historically denied to women like her, confronting the viewer with a vision of authority reshaped through femininity, dignity, and presence.
Rich maroons, golds, and dramatic shadowing create an atmosphere of opulence and command, while the classical composition recalls the visual language traditionally reserved for political and imperial portraiture.
Size: 40 × 40 in
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Original oil painting on canvas.
1 of 1.
Size: 40 × 40 in
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Original oil painting on canvas.
1 of 1.
Size: 40 × 40 in
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Original oil painting on canvas.
1 of 1.
Size: 40 × 40 in
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Original oil painting on canvas.
“The Duke” is part of JoliArtist’s “Art From An Alternate Timeline” collection, a body of work imagining a world in which history unfolded differently: one without misogyny, oppression, or inherited systems of exclusion. Through regal portraiture and classical visual language, the series reimagines power, status, and historical representation through an alternate social reality.
Size: 40 × 40 in
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Original oil painting on canvas.
Currently unvarnished. The artwork will be professionally varnished prior to shipment. Updated photographs coming soon.
Size: 40 × 40 in
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Original oil painting on canvas.
1 of 1.
Size: 24 × 48 in
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Original oil painting on canvas.
Size: 30 × 40 in
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Original oil painting on canvas.
Size: 30 × 40 in
In “The Viscount,” from JoliArtist’s “Art From An Alternate Timeline” series, the subject emerges as an embodiment of grace, governance, and authority within a world untouched by systemic inequality. Draped in silver and crimson, her poised presence and reflective gaze evoke an imagined history in which women’s leadership is not exceptional, but celebrated and deeply ingrained within society.
Through classical portraiture and richly detailed composition, the work reimagines power through dignity, wisdom, and inherited sovereignty.
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Original oil painting on canvas.
“KAMALA HARRIS”
1 of 1.
Size: 36 × 36 in
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Original oil painting on canvas.
1 of 1.
Size: 48 × 36 in
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Original oil painting on canvas.
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Size: 40 × 40 in
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Original oil painting on canvas.
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Size: 36 × 36 in
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Original oil painting on canvas.
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Size: 40 × 60 in
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Size: 40 × 40 in
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Original oil painting on canvas.
“Adé,” meaning “crown” or “royalty” in the Yorùbá language, embodies dignity, grace, and quiet authority. Without the need for a physical crown, the subject carries the splendour of her title through presence alone, becoming an embodiment of the nobility that “Adé” signifies.
Rendered with meticulous attention to detail, every jewel, fabric fold, and ornament reflects the artist’s dedication to craftsmanship and classical portraiture.
Size: 40 × 40 in
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Original oil painting on canvas.
1 of 1. No prints produced.
Size: 40 × 30 in
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Original oil painting on canvas.
1 of 1. No prints produced.
Size: 48 × 36 in
“I love you for your brownness
And the rounded darkness of your breast
I love you for the breaking sadness in your voice
And shadows where your wayward eye-lids rest.
Something of old forgotten queens
Lurks in the lithe abandon of your walk
And something of the shackled slave
Sobs in the rhythm of your talk
Oh, little brown girl, born for sorrow’s mate
Keep all you have of queenliness
Forgetting that you were once were slave
And let your full lips laugh at Fate!”
— Excerpt from “To A Dark Girl,” a poem by Gwendolyn B. Bennett
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Original oil painting on canvas.
1 of 1. No prints produced.
Size: 40 × 40 in
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Seers
Original oil painting on canvas.
“The Luminary: Oracle of Epochs”
In this striking portrait, JoliArtist presents a figure who commands attention through quiet confidence and composed authority. The subject emerges as an Oracle from an alternate timeline — a world in which history unfolded with greater compassion, equality, and reverence for feminine wisdom.
Her gaze remains fixed upon a horizon known only to her, suggesting futures unwritten and destinies yet to unfold. Through rich colour, classical portraiture, and atmospheric lighting, the painting evokes the presence of a visionary suspended between history and prophecy.
Size: 30 × 40 in
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Original oil painting on canvas.
“The Physicist: A Vision of Timeless Intellect”
“The Physicist” portrays a woman suspended in contemplation, her gaze fixed beyond the canvas as though reaching toward the hidden architecture of reality itself. Within her expression resides both scholarly pursuit and quiet wisdom, an intellect shaped by curiosity, discipline, and vision.
Part of JoliArtist’s alternate historical universe, the work imagines a world in which the pursuit of knowledge and scientific discovery exists free from the limitations of gender, race, or inherited exclusion.
Size: 30 × 46 in
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Original oil painting on canvas.
“The Alchemist”
Size: 36 × 48 in
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Original oil painting on linen.
Currently pictured unvarnished. Updated varnished photographs coming soon.
Size: 30 × 40 in
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Original oil painting on canvas.
1 of 1.
Size: 36 × 48 in
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Mixed-media painting on canvas.
“Stillness in the Midst” is a collaborative work created by the artist and her daughter during a period of emotional turbulence and transformation. Her daughter, aged 15 at the time, painted the expressive red foreground, a raw outpouring of teenage intensity, while JoliArtist painted the serene figure emerging beneath it, her calm gaze layered through the chaos like a quiet anchor.
The contrast between the explosive reds above and the composed blue tones below reflects the tension between youthful fury and maternal understanding, capturing two emotional worlds learning to coexist within a single canvas.
Size: 30 × 40 in
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Original oil painting on canvas.
1 of 1.
Size: 24 × 48 in
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Original oil painting on canvas.
Size: 30 × 40 in
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PANTHEON
Original oil painting on canvas.
1 of 1. No prints produced.
Size: 48 × 60 in
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Original oil painting on linen.
“Eve’s Enlightenment” reimagines the Genesis narrative through a lens of wisdom, knowledge, and feminine awakening. Rather than portraying the serpent as a symbol of temptation or moral failure, the work draws upon older traditions in which the serpent represents healing, sacred knowledge, enlightenment, and transformation.
Entwined with Eve in an exchange that feels more like communion than confrontation, the serpent becomes an emblem of esoteric understanding. Its presence does not diminish her, but instead illuminates her, imbuing her with awareness, self-possession, and profound insight.
Rendered with tenderness and psychological depth, Eve’s nudity is depicted not as shame, but as a symbol of consciousness and self-realisation. Through this reinterpretation, the painting presents Eve not as a figure of transgression, but as one of illumination and awakened truth.
Size: 30 × 40 in
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Original oil painting on canvas.
“Beneath the Same Sky” confronts the historical exclusion and misrepresentation of marginalised identities within classical and religious art. Through the portrayal of two angelic figures, one with fiery red curls, the other with deep brown skin, the work reclaims visual space traditionally denied to those cast outside conventional depictions of beauty, divinity, and power.
Bathed in dramatic light and shadow, the figures stand together in quiet solidarity. Their dark, layered wings evoke both struggle and transcendence, suggesting resilience shaped through historical exclusion rather than diminished by it.
Rather than simply critiquing classical norms, the painting offers a reimagining of who is permitted to occupy sacred and celestial spaces. “Beneath the Same Sky” becomes both a meditation on representation and a celebration of dignity, inner strength, and shared humanity.
Size: 40 × 40 in
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Original oil painting on linen.
“The End And The Beginning Are One”
Size: 24 × 36 in
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Original oil painting on canvas.
“Duality: Subject and Observer” examines the relationship between the figure being seen and the figure who sees. Set within an Edenic landscape, two women occupy the same space: one exposed and frontal, the other partially clothed and positioned just behind her, observing with quiet composure.
While the nude figure initially appears to be the subject, the second figure complicates the dynamic. Neither passive nor secondary, her presence transforms the painting into a meditation on observation itself, where witness, author, guardian, and subject begin to overlap.
At their feet, flowers and mushrooms anchor the composition symbolically, referencing themes of duality, balance, and coexistence within nature.
Rather than presenting the female form through a traditional external gaze, the work explores what happens when women control both sides of the visual exchange: the image and its interpretation, the body and the witness, the seen and the seer.
Size: 40 × 40 in
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Large original oil painting on canvas.
The only intentional self-portrait(s) created by JoliArtist.
Size: 48 × 60 in
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Original oil painting on canvas.
“Ninshubur” draws from Sumerian mythology and the figure of the goddess and divine messenger associated with Inanna. Revered as both servant and powerful counterpart, Ninshubur occupies a unique position within ancient mythology, embodying authority, devotion, wisdom, and divine agency.
Historically, interpretations of Ninshubur shifted across retellings and translations, with later Akkadian myths altering the deity’s gender despite the name itself being associated with feminine rulership. Through this work, JoliArtist revisits the mythology surrounding Ninshubur while reflecting on themes of identity, power, reinterpretation, and the historical reshaping of feminine figures across time.
Size: 36 × 48 in
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Original oil painting on canvas.
Size: 40 × 40 in
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Original oil painting on linen.
Size: 30 × 40 in
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Original oil painting on canvas.
Size: 40 × 40 in
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Original oil painting on canvas.
“As she talks, her lips breathe spring roses: I was Chloris, who am now called Flora.”
— Ovid
Drawing from ancient Greek mythology, “Chloris/Flora, The Nymph” reimagines the goddess associated with spring, flowers, and renewal. Originally a nymph linked to new growth and the natural world, Chloris was later transformed into the deity Flora after her union with Zephyrus, the god of the west wind.
The painting reflects themes of transformation, fertility, beauty, and rebirth, invoking the mythological figure believed to bring flowers and flourishing life into existence.
Size: 48 × 36 in
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Original oil painting on metal.
1 of 1. No prints produced.
Size: 48 × 23.75 in
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Original oil painting on wood.
1 of 1. No prints produced.
Size: 48 × 12 in
“On the day of breasts and small hips
the window pocked with bad rain,
rain coming on like a minister,
we coupled, so sane and insane.
We lay like spoons while the sinister
rain dropped like flies on our lips
and our glad eyes and our small hips.
"The room is so cold with rain," you said
and you, feminine you, with your flower
said novenas to my ankles and elbows.
You are a national product and power.
Oh my swan, my drudge, my dear wooly rose,
even a notary would notarize our bed
as you knead me and I rise like bread.”
— “Song For A Lady,” a poem by Anne Sexton (1969)
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Original oil painting on aluminium.
Size: 24 × 36 in
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Original oil painting on canvas.
1 of 1.
Size: 36 × 48 in
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Original oil painting on canvas.
Drawing from the legend of Scheherazade and One Thousand and One Nights, this work explores storytelling as an act of survival, resistance, and transformation. After witnessing betrayal, a Persian Sultan descends into violence, taking a new bride each night only to execute her by morning. Scheherazade, determined to end the cycle of brutality, volunteers to become his next wife.
Through intelligence, imagination, and extraordinary storytelling, she captivates the Sultan night after night, extending her life through unfinished tales until, over time, his cruelty begins to dissolve. By the thousand-and-first night, peace is restored and the Sultan renounces the violence that once consumed him.
The painting reflects themes of feminine intellect, endurance, psychological transformation, and the power of narrative to challenge destruction and reshape destiny.
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Original oil painting on canvas.
1 of 1. No prints produced.
Size: 40 × 40 in
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SOFT POWER
Original oil painting on canvas.
Feminine, coy, glamorous, regal, and utterly dangerous, the subject’s allure exists just beyond reach. Her affection appears fleeting and elusive, a presence that, once withdrawn, leaves only longing in its wake.
“Why, Pigot, complain of this damsel's disdain,
Why thus in despair do you fret?
For months you may try, yet, believe me, a sigh
Will never obtain a coquette.”
— Lord Byron
This work is one of five monumental paintings created by JoliArtist, exploring themes of beauty, power, desire, and feminine mystique through large-scale portraiture.
Size: 48 × 60 in
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Original oil painting on canvas.
“Dandyism in certain respects comes close to spirituality and to stoicism. These beings have no other status, but that of cultivating the idea of beauty in their own persons, of satisfying their passions, of feeling and thinking. Dandyism is a form of Romanticism. Contrary to what many thoughtless people seem to believe, dandyism is not even an excessive delight in clothes and material elegance. For the perfect dandy, these things are no more than the symbol of the aristocratic superiority of mind.”
— Charles Baudelaire
Size: 40 × 40 in
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Original oil painting on linen.
Size: 24 × 36 in
Currently pictured unvarnished. Updated photographs coming soon.
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Original oil painting on canvas. No prints produced. 1 of 1.
40’’ x 30’’ inches
The title of this piece is “Princess,” completed 2/2019, and part of the “AfroRococo” Series. Leila is the Arabic and Persian word for “dark beauty.”
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Original oil painting on aluminium.
Size: 48 × 36 in
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Original oil painting on canvas.
1 of 1. No prints produced.
Size: 48 × 36 in
“Your hands easy
weight, teasing the bees
hived in my hair, your smile at the
slope of my cheek. On the
occasion, you press
above me, glowing, spouting
readiness, mystery rapes
my reason
When you have withdrawn
your self and the magic, when
only the smell of your
love lingers between
my breasts, then, only
then, can I greedily consume
your presence.”
-Excerpt from “Remembrance,” A poem by Maya Angelou
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Title: “She Walks in Beauty.”
“She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellow'd to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impaired the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o'er her face;
Where thoughts serenely sweet express
How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.
And on that cheek, and o'er that brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent!”
-A Poem by Lord Byron, circa 1813.
Original oil painting on metal.
36’’ X 23.5’’ inches
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Original oil painting on canvas.
“The Thespian”
Size: 48 × 36 in
“Allegorical Statue in the Style of the Renaissance.
It is a legacy of Tuscan skill;
see how the holy sisters, Power and Grace,
sustain this woman’s beauty in a form
so faultless as to seem miraculous—
given pride of place above rich beds
to charm a prince’s leisure, or a pope’s. . .
—Notice the faint voluptuous smile that shows,
that shares the consummation of Desire;
observe that teasing glance which penetrates
the subtle coquetry of gauzy veils
around a face whose every feature speaks,
not just the parted lips too shy to boast:
“When Lust commands me, even Love obeys!”
Look how the languor in her posture adds
a certain mischief to this majesty;
come closer—walk around her loveliness. . .
What blasphemy of art is this! Upon
a body made to offer every bliss
appear. . . two heads! A monster? No—
one is merely a mask, a grinning cheat
that smile, illumined with exquisite care.
Look there: contorted in her misery,
the actual head, the woman’s countenance
lost in the shadow of the lying mask. . .
Pathos of true beauty! the bright tears
trickle into my astonished heart;
your lie intoxicates me, and my soul
slakes its passion in your brimming eyes!
—Why is she weeping? Surely such a face
would put all mankind, vanquished, at her feet!
What secret evil feeds on her firm flesh?
—She weeps, you fool, for having lived! and for
living—yet what she laments the most,
what makes her body tremble head to toe,
is that tomorrow she will have to live,
and all tomorrows after—like ourselves!”
— Poem by Charles Baudelaire
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Original oil painting on canvas.
1 of 1.
Size: 48 × 60 in
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Original oil painting on aluminium panel.
Size: 24 × 36 in
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Original oil painting on linen.
“A Woman’s Affair”
Size: 30 × 42 in
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Abyss
Heavily textured mixed-media painting on canvas (oil and acrylic).
Size: 48 × 36 in
For centuries, lapis lazuli has been revered for its intense ultramarine colour and spiritual symbolism. More valuable than gold during parts of the Renaissance, the stone was historically reserved for the robes of angels, saints, and the Virgin Mary in sacred art. From ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt to Buddhist traditions, lapis lazuli has symbolised divinity, wisdom, protection, higher consciousness, and transcendence.
This painting serves as a visual ode to what was once known as “The Stone of the Gods,” drawing upon the rich historical and spiritual legacy associated with lapis lazuli across civilisations and mythology.
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Heavily textured mixed-media painting on canvas and wood (oil and acrylic).
Size: 50 × 20 in
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Original oil painting on canvas.
1 of 1. No prints produced.
Size: 36 × 24 in
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Original oil painting on metal.
Size: 36 × 24 in
“…We returned to our places, these Kingdoms,
But no longer at ease here,
With an alien people clutching their gods.
I should be glad of another death.”
— Excerpt from “The Journey of the Magi,” a poem by T.S. Eliot
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Original oil painting on metal.
1 of 1. No prints produced.
Size: 48 × 36 in
“And I could write a song
A hundred miles long
well that's where I belong
And you belong with me
The streets you're walking on
A thousand houses long
Well that's where I belong
And you belong with me
Ah what good is it to live
With nothing left to give?
Forget but not forgive
Not loving all you see
Ah the streets you're walking on
A thousand houses long
Well that's where I belong
And you belong with me
Not swallowed in the sea
You belong with me
Not swallowed in the sea
Yeah you belong with me
Not swallowed in the sea.”
— Excerpt from “Swallowed In The Sea” by Coldplay
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Original oil painting on canvas.
1 of 1. No prints produced.
Size: 40 × 30 in
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Original oil painting on canvas.
1 of 1. No prints produced.
Size: 24 × 36 in
“Nature the gentlest mother is,
Impatient of no child,
The feeblest of the waywardest.
Her admonition mild
In forest and the hill
By traveller be heard,
Restraining rampant squirrel
Or too impetuous bird.
How fair her conversation
A summer afternoon,
Her household her assembly;
And when the sun go down,
Her voice among the aisles
Incite the timid prayer
Of the minutest cricket,
The most unworthy flower.
When all the children sleep,
She turns as long away
As will suffice tolight her lamps,
Then bending from the sky
With infinite affection
An infiniter care,
Her golden finger on her lip,
Wills silence everywhere.”
— Excerpt from “Nature; The Gentlest Mother,” a poem by Emily Dickinson (c.1924)
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Original oil painting on canvas.
1 of 1. No prints produced.
Size: 24 × 36 in
“Coming together
it is easier to work
after our bodies
meet
paper and pen
neither care nor profit
whether we write or not
but as your body moves
under my hands
charged and waiting
we cut the leash
you create me against your thighs
hilly with images
moving through our word countries
my body
writes into your flesh
the poem
you make of me.
Touching you I catch midnight
as moon fires set in my throat
I love you flesh into blossom
I made you
and take you made
into me.”
— “Recreation,” a poem by Audre Lorde (circa 1972)
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Original oil painting on canvas.
1 of 1. No prints produced.
Size: 36 × 36 in
“A woman in the shape of a monster
a monster in the shape of a woman
the skies are full of them……..
Galaxies of women, there
doing penance for impetuousness
ribs chilled
in those spaces of the mind…..
I am a galactic cloud so deep
so involuted that a light wave could take 15
years to travel through me
And has taken I am an instrument in the shape
of a woman trying to translate pulsations
into images for the relief of the body
and the reconstruction of the mind.”
— Poem by Adrienne Rich
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Original oil painting on canvas.
Size: 40 × 30 in
“Fair is the sun when first he flames above,
Flinging his joy down in a happy beam;
And happy he who can salute with love
The sunset far more glorious than a dream.
Flower, stream, and furrow!—I have seen them all
In the sun’s eye swoon like one trembling heart—
Though it be late let us with speed depart
To catch at least one ray ere it fall!
But I pursue the fading god in vain,
For conquering Night makes firm her dark domain,
Mist and gloom fall, and terrors glide between,
And graveyard odours in the shadow swim,
And my faint footsteps on the marsh’s rim
Bruise the cold snail and crawling toad unseen.”
— Poem by Charles Baudelaire
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Heavily textured mixed-media and oil painting on canvas.
1 of 1. No prints produced.
Size: 36 × 18 in
“She came home running
back to the mothering blackness
deep in the smothering blackness
white tears icicle gold plains of her face
She came home running
She came down creeping
here to the black arms waiting
now to the warm heart waiting
rime of alien dreams befrosts her rich brown face
She came down creeping
She came home blameless
black yet as Hagar’s daughter
tall as was Sheba’s daughter
threats of northern winds die on the desert’s face
She came home blameless”
— “The Mothering Blackness,” a poem by Dr. Maya Angelou
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Original oil painting on canvas.
Signed and dated (2017).
Size: 24 × 36 in
A figurative work examining intimacy, imbalance, and absorption.
The male figure occupies the dominant mass of the composition, intact and continuous. The female figure emerges through the upper body, her arm resting against his shoulder, yet as the forms descend her body dissolves into his. The boundary between them collapses, leaving behind a single uneven shape.
Thick impasto and saturated contour obscure separation rather than clarify it. Beneath them, a fractured reflection moves across disturbed water while fuchsia flowers drift at the surface, marking the scene without softening it.
The work explores closeness carried to its limit — where union begins to resemble consumption.
Original work. One of a kind.
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Original oil painting on canvas.
Painted 2017.
Size: 24 × 36 in
“Lorikeet”
Two figures hold one another in a moment of closeness shaped by distance. One leans inward, eyes closed and fully present. The other remains turned away, steady and composed, offering support without surrender.
Rendered in saturated colour inspired by Australian lorikeets and landscape, the composition reflects connection formed across geography, circumstance, and restraint. The embrace is genuine, yet bounded — intimacy existing without possession.
The work records a period of emotional accompaniment during personal upheaval, where care was expressed through constancy rather than physical proximity.
Original work. One of a kind.
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SPECTACLE
Original oil painting on canvas.
1 of 1. No prints produced.
Size: 48 × 36 in
“This is my palace, champagne in my chalice
I got it all covered like a wedding band
Wondaland, so my alias is Alice
And we gon' start a motherf—n' p-ssy riot
Or we gon' have to put 'em on a p-ssy diet
Look at that, I guarantee I got 'em quiet
Look at that, I guarantee they all inspired…
…We gave you life, we gave you birth
We gave you God, we gave you Earth
We fem the future, don't make it worse
You want the world? Well, what's it worth?
Emoticons, Decepticons, and Autobots
Who twist the plot?
Who shot the sheriff, then fled to Paris
In the darkest hour, spoke truth to power?”
-Excerpt from “Django Jane,” A poem by Janelle Monae.
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Original oil painting on gallery-wrapped canvas.
Gloss varnish finish. Signed and dated (2019).
Size: 24 × 36 in
A study of the body as surface, construction, and spectacle.
Rendered in saturated primaries with a polished finish, the figure appears exaggerated and sculptural. Smooth planes and heightened proportions reference fashion imagery, cosmetic enhancement, and the aesthetics of visibility within contemporary culture.
The painting presents an image rather than a person, something engineered, maintained, and displayed with precision. The work observes this condition directly, without sentimentality or judgment.
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Trojan Horse
Original oil painting by Joli Artist
24 × 36 inches · Oil on canvas
Signed and dated 2019
This work uses familiarity as its entry point.
Rendered in a polished, accessible style, the figure appears at first glance to belong easily within traditional ideas of glamour and beauty. Blonde hair, red dress, pearls, and confident posture create an image that feels immediately recognizable.
On closer inspection, ceremonial facial markings and compositional choices introduce another layer of meaning. These details are not added as contrast, but as part of a single, integrated presence. The work resists simplification, presenting identity as whole rather than divided.
Trojan Horse invites the viewer in through beauty, then quietly expands what that space is allowed to hold.
Original oil painting. One of a kind.
Artist: Joli Artist
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Original oil painting on canvas.
Signed and dated (2016).
Size: 24 × 36 in
Painted in 2016, this work captures a moment of collective disbelief as it registered within the body before language could fully articulate it.
The figure’s pink skin and red undertones suggest internal heat rather than outward performance, while the purple hair emerges through the convergence of red and blue, opposing forces held uneasily within a single form. The colours do not reconcile into harmony; they coexist under tension.
Her expression resists easy interpretation. It is neither outrage nor despair, but the suspended moment of recognition before comprehension fully arrives, the instant in which something fundamental shifts and the body understands before the mind can process it.
Though deeply personal in atmosphere, the figure also operates as a broader reflection of collective uncertainty: human, unsettled, and altered by what has just occurred.
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Title: “Constructed Femininity ”
Original oil painting on canvas.
Size: 48 × 36 in
“When, with both my eyes closed, on a hot autumn night,
I inhale the fragrance of your warm breast
I see happy shores spread out before me,
On which shines a dazzling and monotonous sun;
A lazy isle to which nature has given
Singular trees, savory fruits,
Men with bodies vigorous and slender,
And women in whose eyes shines a startling candor.
Guided by your fragrance to these charming countries,
I see a port filled with sails and rigging
Still utterly wearied by the waves of the sea,
While the perfume of the green tamarinds,
That permeates the air, and elates my nostrils,
Is mingled in my soul with the sailors' chanteys.”
— Charles Baudelaire
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Original oil painting on panel.
1 of 1. No prints produced.
Size: 48 × 24 in
“O fleece, that down the neck waves to the nape!
O curls! O perfume nonchalant and rare!
O ecstasy! To fill this alcove shape
With memories that in these tresses sleep,
I would shake them like penions in the air!
Languorous Asia, burning Africa,
And a far world, defunct almost, absent,
Within your aromatic forest stay!
As other souls on music drift away,
Mine, O my love! still floats upon your scent……”
— Excerpt from “Her Hair,” a poem by Charles Baudelaire (c.1861)
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Original oil painting on panel.
1 of 1. No prints produced.
Size: 48 × 36 in
“I marked where lovely Venus and her court
With song and dance and merry laugh went by;
Weightless, their wingless feet seemed made to fly,
Bound from the ground and in mid air to sport.
Left far behind I heard the dolphins snort,
Tracking their goddess with a wistful eye,
Around whose head white doves rose, wheeling high
Or low, and cooed after their tender sort.
All this I saw in Spring. Through Summer heat
I saw the lovely Queen of Love no more.
But when flushed Autumn through the woodlands went
I spied sweet Venus walk amid the wheat:
Whom seeing, every harvester gave o'er
His toil, and laughed and hoped and was content.“
— “Venus’s Looking Glass,” a poem by Christina Georgina Rossetti (c. 1872)
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Original oil painting on canvas.
1 of 1. No prints produced.
Size: 60 × 39.75 in
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STUDIES
Original oil painting on oak wood.
One of a kind. No prints produced.
Size: approximately 12 × 12 in
“...Then will I swear beauty herself is Black...”
— William Shakespeare, The Dark Lady Sonnets
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Original oil painting on oak wood.
One of a kind. No prints produced.
Size: 8 × 12 in
“What’s in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”
— William Shakespeare
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Original oil painting on wood panel.
Signed and dated (2016).
Size: 24 × 30 in
In this portrait, “Liminal Regency” reimagines Nile Valley regality through a lens of contemporary beauty and quiet authority. A woman gazes directly outward, centered and fully adorned, occupying the composition with calm certainty and presence.
Drawing from pharaonic iconography through frontal composition, stylised adornment, and echoes of turquoise and gold, the work does not attempt historical reconstruction, but instead imagines a parallel timeline in which Nile Valley aesthetics evolved into a mythic futurism that feels both ancient and unmistakably contemporary.
Painted with luminous oils on wood panel, the surface carries a restrained radiance. The work relies not on spectacle, but on composure, symbolism, and presence.
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Heavily textured mixed-media painting on canvas (oil and acrylic).
1 of 1. No prints produced.
Size: 60 × 40 in
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Original oil painting on canvas.
1 of 1. No prints produced.
Size: 36 × 24 in
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Original oil painting on canvas.
Size: 36 × 24 in
“The Devil into my high room
This morning came to pay a call,
And trying to find me in fault
Said: "I should like to know,
Among all the beautiful things
Which make her an enchantress,
Among the objects black or rose
That compose her charming body,
Which is the sweetest." — O my soul!
You answered the loathsome Creature:
"Since in Her all is dittany,
No single thing can be preferred.
When all delights me, I don't know
If some one thing entrances me.
She dazzles like the Dawn
And consoles like the Night;
And the harmony that governs
Her whole body is too lovely
For impotent analysis
To note its numerous accords.
O mystic metamorphosis
Of all my senses joined in one!
Her breath makes music,
And her voice makes perfume!"
— Poem by Charles Baudelaire
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Original oil painting on metal.
1 of 1. No prints produced.
Size: 48 × 23.75 in
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In Ancient Egyptian Mythology, Blue hair has been described as a "sacred aesthetic" with lapis lazuli (a very rare earth mineral in a rich shade of blue) indicated divinity (perhaps due to its association with precious materials.) The Gods were said to have hair of lapis lazuli.
Biblical characters such as Eve, Leah, Rachel, and The Virgin Mary are often also depicted with "sky-blue" hair.
Additionally, many works of art from the Anglo-Saxon tribes (post-Roman influence) feature blue haired women. Although according to Gale R. Owen-Crocker in Dress in Anglo-Saxon England "the use of colour in Anglo-Saxon art is not realistic; there is no need to assume dye was used on the hair." The statement by Owen-Crocker is of course open to interpretation.
The Buddha was also often featured with brilliant blue hair, with traces of ancient blue pigment haven been found in the hair grooves of the 'Qingzhou Buddhas' of the 4-6th century.
Original oil painting on canvas.
36’’ x 24’’ inches
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Original oil painting on canvas.
1 of 1. No prints produced.
Size: 48 × 36 in
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Original oil painting on canvas.
1 of 1. No prints produced.
Size: 30 × 40 in
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