These recent paintings continue to explore my experience of the invisible labour of care-giving. i use the language of abstract expressionism (renowned for its machismo and high cultural value) and playfully apply a contemporary feminist lens.
Works are available to buy through Kittoe Contemporary or you can email me for more details at jess@jessblandford.com.
Hold Tight, 2025
Acrylic and oil on linen
103 × 103cm (framed)
£3,300
Interest-free installments available with the Own Art Scheme through Kittoe Contemporary
Nature Nurturer, 2025
Acrylic on canvas
30 x 30cm
£990 (framed)
Interest-free installments available with the Own Art Scheme through Kittoe Contemporary
Are we out of ketchup?, 2025
Acrylic and oil on linen (diptych),
40×80cm
£2,200 (framed)
Interest-free installments available with the Own Art Scheme through Kittoe Contemporary
Extra screen time, 2025
Acrylic and oil on canvas
30×30cm
£990 (framed)
Interest-free installments available with the Own Art Scheme through Kittoe Contemporary
Creeping shoulds, 2024
Acrylic on linen
22x28cm
£880 (framed)
[Winner of Southwark Park Galleries Annual Open 2024]
Interest-free installments available with the Own Art Scheme through Kittoe Contemporary
Sharing the load, 2024
Acrylic on linen, 22x28cm (open framed)
£880
Interest-free installments available with the Own Art Scheme through Kittoe Contemporary
Hangry, 2025
Acrylic and oil on linen
25×30cm (framed)
£880
Interest-free installments available with the Own Art Scheme through Kittoe Contemporary
Have you checked under the sofa?, 2025
Acrylic, oil and pigment on linen
25×30cm (framed)
£880
Interest-free installments available with the Own Art Scheme through Kittoe Contemporary
Calpol, 2025
Acrylic on linen
25×30cm
£880 (framed)
Interest-free installments available with the Own Art Scheme through Kittoe Contemporary
Carrying the coats, 2025
Acrylic and oil on linen
25x30cm (framed)
£880
Interest-free installments available with the Own Art Scheme through Kittoe Contemporary
Touched Out, 2023
Oil on gesso board, 30x30cm, open framed
£990
Interest-free installments available with the Own Art Scheme through Kittoe Contemporary
I use colour, hidden layers, transparency, erasure and gestural marks to celebrate the mundane, repetitive, messy, intimate, complex and often invisible work of family life.
I explore the visual language of abstract expressionism because of it’s association with machismo and it’s high cultural value, and I try to playfully apply a contemporary feminist lens. Emptying the dishwasher, sorting PE kits, organising childcare, remembering birthdays, writing shopping lists, wiping hands, bums, surfaces, tears, aren’t the usual preoccupations of Fine Art, but they deserve to be. I try to assert the hidden value and beauty of these physical, emotional and cognitive loads which underpin our lives and economies.
The weight of things, 2025
Acrylic and oil on linen
50 × 60cm
SOLD through Southwark Park Galleries
Thinking of everything, 2025
Acrylic and oil on linen
79 × 125cm (framed)
SOLD
Bickering again, 2025
Acrylic and oil on linen
94 × 74cm (framed)
SOLD
Trouble sleeping, 2025
Acrylic and oil on linen
103 × 79cm (framed)
SOLD
Apart from that, everything’s fine, 2024
Acrylic on Linen. 22×28cm
Selected for Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2025
SOLD at RA (limited edition print available)
Prams in Hallways, 2023
Acrylic & charcoal on canvas
39x28cm – open framed
Selected for Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2024
available as a hand-finished limited edition print
The Idea of Goodness (after Carol Shields)
Oil on Gesso Board, 2022
30cm x 30cm
Selected for the Royal Academy Summer Show 2023
ORIGINAL PAINTING SOLD
available as a limited edition print
Good Enough (Green), 2022
Oil on unbleached linen
76x61cm (Open Framed)
ORIGINAL PAINTING SOLD (available as a limited edition print)
Good Enough (Blue), 2022
Oil on unbleached linen
76x61cm Open Framed
ORIGINAL PAINTING SOLD (available as a limited edition print)
You do make me laugh, 2025
Acrylic & oil on canvas, 25 x 30cm (open framed)
SOLD
Messy Love, 2023
Oil paint on linen
64x54cm (open framed)
SOLD
Writing Lists, 2024
Acrylic on linen
22×27cm open framed
SOLD
Keeping everyone chipper, 2025
Acrylic & oil on linen, 50cm x 50cm (open framed)
SOLD
Bringing the wrong snack (again)
Acrylic and oil on linen
40 × 40cm framed
SOLD
MIddle of the Night To do List IX, 2023
Acrylic on canvas
100x100cm
SOLD
Are we nearly there yet?, 2023
Acrylic on canvas
40x40cm, open framed
SOLD
Where You Are, 2023
Acrylic on canvas
30x30cm (open framed)
SOLD
I found my keys in the fridge, 2024
Acrylic & oil on canvas,
30x30cm (open framed)
SOLD
You should’ve asked, 2024
Oil on gesso board,
30x30cm (open framed),
SOLD
Flourishing, 2023
Oil paint & charcoal on linen
54x64cm – open framed
SOLD
Boundaries, 2024
Oil on gesso board,
40x40cm (open framed),
SOLD
Hold my hand tight, 2025
Oil on gesso board, 40 x 40cm (open framed)
SOLD
It’s like having 200 tabs open in your brain at any given time and switching off might mean losing them all, 2023
Acrylic on board , 50x50cm (open framed)
SOLD
The Weight of Small Things, 2023
Oil paint on gesso board
30x30cm, open framed
SOLD
After this it should all calm down, 2024
Acrylic on linen
22 x 27cm open framed
SOLD
Nature Nurturer, 2023
Oil paint on gesso panel
28x28cm – open framed
SOLD
Middle of the Night To Do List, 2023
Oil paint on gesso panel
28x28cm – open framed
SOLD
Bringing the Wrong Snack, 2023
Acrylic on gesso board
36.5x36.5cm - open box framed
SOLD
What Else Can I Do, 2023
Acrylic on gesso board
40x40cm, open framed
SOLD
The Constant Flux of Matter, 2023
Acrylic on gesso board
36.5x36.5cm - open box framed
SOLD
Flotsam & Jetsam, 2023
Acrylic, ink & charcoal on panel
44x44cm – open framed
SOLD
Whose Socks are Whose?, 2023
Oil paint on gesso panel
25x25cm
SOLD
Holding it Together
Oil on Gesso Board, 2022
30x30cm
SOLD
Untitled (with dioxizine purple)
Oil on Gesso board, 2022
30x30cm
SOLD
Searching for the right socks, 2024
Acrylic on linen, 22x28cm (open framed)
SOLD
The Yellow Wallpaper, 2023
Acrylic & pastel on canvas
39x28cm (open framed)
£880
Commission: Sold
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