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Lola Jovan
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Artist, wanderer, rockhound, sparkle-seeker. Married to my soulmate❤️

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Art home at www.lolajovan.com
Blog at www.lolajovan.com/blog

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It Might Have Been Otherwise
pen and ink on Yupo
8 x 9

I got out of bed
on two strong legs.
It might have been
otherwise. I ate
cereal, sweet
milk, ripe, flawless
peach. It might
have been otherwise - JANE KENYON

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A pen and ink drawing of a woman in profile The poem continues: 
I took the dog uphill
to the birch wood.
All morning I did
the work I love.
At noon I lay down
with my mate. It might
have been otherwise.
We ate dinner together
at a table with silver
candlesticks. It might
have been otherwise.
I slept in a bed
in a room with paintings
on the walls, and
planned another day
just like this day.
But one day, I know,
it will be otherwise.
November 15, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Today in war ravaged Portland, the endless drone of Blackhawk helicopters in the sky was drowned out by the shouting of these blooms. What were they yelling? RESIST! PROTEST! NO TROOPS IN PORTLAND!

Even the flowers have had enough of this nonsense.

#portland #NoKings #resist #protest
A close up of one fresh bloom This sunflower is loud and proud! Demure peony Megaphone sunflower
November 15, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Just three more sleeps until the once-a-year gesso madness murder-your-darlings sale at www.lolajovan.com

#artsale #sale #art #annualsale #murderyourdarlings
A poster advertising the annual art sale on my website
November 14, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Study is Exaltation IV
oil on canvas
12 x 16

Science is thought by some to be dry, technical, and quantitative. It is not. Study is exaltation. Fact is miracle. Number is portal. Understanding is joy. - STEVEN NIGHTINGALE

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An abstract landscape painting suggesting turbulent skies, water and a shoreline “Study is exaltation” - the phrase stops me in my tracks. Music to the ears of a painter. Yes, this repetition, this searching and refining and starting again and again, each time closer to something. There can be a giddy joy to it, a reverence, an exaltation.
November 14, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Today in war ravaged Portland, the sky dropped water bombs, causing a sea of rain gear clad citizens searching for sunshine. We all ended up indoors, admitting defeat. A rough day in the war zone.

#portland #NoKings #protest #resist #interiorviews #ourhouse
A bowl of horse chestnuts with a paper frog skeleton Dried flowers and a moose antler
November 14, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Rabbit, Angry
oil on yupo
11 x 19

For a good life: Work like a dog. Eat like a horse. Think like a fox. And play like a rabbit. - GEORGE ALLEN

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#art #painting #fantasyart #rabbit #rabbitart #oilpainting

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An angry rabbit and his tractor Play. It’s the thing we lose track of how to do in adulthood. Silliness, sock sliding, slurping noodles, singing simple songs, snowballs. Blanket forts and shadow puppets, bubble gum and kazoos. Why is this rabbit angry? Because he wants to play, too!
November 13, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Today in war ravaged Portland, rabble-rousers continues to lay golden carpets on city sidewalks, while mischievous trouble-makers continued bloom-bombing gardens. It is dangerous out there!

#Portland #NoKings #protest #resist #fallcolor
A sidewalk covered in golden leaves A later bloomer in a streetside garden
November 13, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Queer Moons
pen and ink on wood panel
8 x 10

Since Christmas they have lived with us,
Guileless and clear,
Oval soul-animals,
Taking up half the space,
Moving and rubbing on the silk - SYLVIA PLATH

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A pen and ink drawing of a woman holding a single balloon The poem continues: “Invisible air drifts, Giving a shriek and pop When attacked, then scooting to rest, barely trembling. Yellow cathead, Sinceblue fish———— Such queer moons we live with Instead of dead furniture! Straw mats, white walls And these traveling Globes of thin air, red, green, Delighting The heart like wishes or free Peacocks blessing Old ground with a feather Beaten in starry metals. Your small Brother is making His balloon squeak like a cat. Seeming to see A funny pink world he might eat on the other side of it, He bites, Then sits Back, fat jug Contemplating a world clear as water. A red Shred in his little fist. “ Plath gives balloons life with her words - I can hear the squeak.
November 12, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Today in war ravaged Portland, the color bombing continued. Sculpture and trees and my fav graffiti dazzled and blinded and hypnotized passersby, leaving them helpless. It’s simply awful!

#portland #NoKings #resist #protest #urbanscape #colorbomb
A metal sculpture in front of trees in full color My favorite graffiti, on a building in SE Portland.
November 12, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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It’s nearly here!

The gesso madness murder-your-darlings once-a-year sale starts Monday, November 17th at www.lolajovan.com.

#artsale #sale #annualsale #murderyourdarlings
A poster announcing the upcoming annual art sale!
November 12, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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The Thing With Feathers (One)
oil on plywood
16 x 15

Moving on, as a concept, is for stupid people, because any sensible person knows grief is a long-term project. I refuse to rush. - MAX PORTER

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#art #painting #birdart #grief
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An oil painting of a pair of fantastical birds. Grief is an intensely personal process, with an unpredictable trajectory and random re-emergence of emotion. It can ebb and flow, rise and fall, be bitter or be softly sweet. Sometimes grief never ends - just becomes part of our bones. Especially loss without explanation, loss without reason, loss without death (as in abandonment). Grief then has feathers, and roosts and flies and pecks and scratches. I am trying to befriend it, my grief. It likes cookies and naps.
November 11, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Today in war ravaged Portland, the skies called a temporary cease-fire and held back the rain deluge, allowing citizens to wander about outside wondering how they are going to pay for healthcare. There were no answers reported - only questions.

#Portland #resist #NoKings #protest #photography
Long shadows on the Hawthorne Bridge in the morning Clear skies over the Willamette River The last of the dahlias lay heavy on the ground
November 11, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Today at our Little Free Library! Free protest and resistance yard signs! Stop by and grab one or more (and a handful of agates from the library). Corner of 15th and Madison in SE Portland.

#Portland #resist #NoKings #protest #signsofjustice
Yard signs at our little free library Take a sign, post a sign! Join the resistance!
November 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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These Numbered Days
These Unrepeatable Hours
oil on panel
Each 8 x 10

​ ...the measure of an unwasted life is not what outlives it but how it was lived - THE MARGINALIAN

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An pair of abstracted landscape paintings in oils. The quote continues: “ how much integrity and authenticity and creative vitality filled these numbered days, these unrepeatable hours” I've been thinking about the third act in a life. ​My life, to be exact. There are people (mostly very wealthy people) who are trying to add multiple acts to a lifespan. And there are people who are more focused on the legacy they will leave behind, be it statues or street names or towers or ballrooms. And we are a society focused on productivity: how much can you do, how much MORE can you do, how fast can you do it. Which leaves very little time or energy for just, well, living. Admittedly, these are things I have the luxury of time, resources and near-retirement to contemplate. But wouldn't it be worthwhile if we directed the ship of our lives toward integrity, authenticity and creative vitality​ from the get-go? I try to imagine how my life would have unfolded if I had not been taught to do more, do better, do faster and instead had been taught to slow down, be curious, be true to myself. ​I don't have all the answers - no, no, NO! But I have questions. How about you? An abstracted seascape painting in oils
November 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Today in war ravaged Portland…people just stared at the ground, mesmerized by yellow carpets installed overnight on city sidewalks and streets. Who is the decorator in charge here? These will be muddy and brown in no time. We have questions!

#Portland #NoKings #protest #resist #fall #golden
Golden leaves on the sidewalk beneath my feet
November 10, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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Rabbit Fighter
oil on canvas
15 x 30

Shady politician in my bed
Tying bolts of lightning to his head
Call me Rabbit Fighter you know its true
'Cause babe I'll Rabbit fight all over you - from RABBIT FIGHTER by T. REX

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A fantasy oil painting of a rabbit built for fighting The lyric continues: “Tramp king of the city he's my friend Moondog's just a prophet to the end Call me Rabbit Fighter you know its true 'Cause babe I'll Rabbit fight all over you” - from RABBIT FIGHTER by T. REX Sometimes a painting is just an opportunity to create malarkey with rabbits. And who doesn’t want to have their own rabbit fighter goon?
November 9, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Today in war ravaged Portland, color bombardment on buildings and walkways left passersby dazed and confused, wandering aimlessly in circles, blinded by beauty and creativity. Make it stop!

#Portland #protest #resist #NoKings #graffiti #streetart
A close up of the side of a commercial building Close up of the corner of a commercial building Rooftop graffiti and its reflection in a pool of water
November 9, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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It’s coming!!!!! Mark your calendars!

The gesso madness murder-your-darlings sell-or-die once-a-year sale begins Nov 17! It is a reality art show with high stakes! Which paintings will survive? Which will be rescued!? Which will be smothered in gesso or paint?

#artsale #annualsale #art
Annual sale poster featuring an abstracted landscape painting
November 8, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Octopus Entanglement
pen and ink on Yupo
11 x 14

The octopus knew he was happy, and it loved him, or valued him, or felt something enough that his happiness was important to it.
Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin

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A pen and ink drawing of an octopus The quote continues: And that in itself is a miracle; that is the grand triumph Senkovi never grasped, that his creatures could empathize, could apply a theory of mind to entities quite unlike themselves, could be great-hearted enough to be happy that someone else was laughing, even if they couldn’t get the joke.” Tchaikovsky’s book series is the place where octopods and science fiction collide - where sentient spiders and humans and the octopus planet meet up for an incredible adventure. It is a world that lives on in my head long after the books have ended. The majestic, compassionate and clever octopus. Yes, please.
November 8, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Today in war ravaged Portland, the sign bombers employed new tactics, printing “official” signs and installing them around the city. We’re being overrun with free speech and creative signage! Oh no!!!!

#Portland #NoKings #protest #resist #signs
A metal sign installed on a pedestrian and bike ramp Signs on a commercial dumpster
November 8, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Marylou Is Angry
pen and ink on yupo
5.5 x 10 inches
(plus a generous border for framing)

Marylou is angry
her face makes it clear
when Marylou is angry
stay away from here!

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#art #penandink #illustration #anger #drawing

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A pen and ink drawing of a mad girl. Anger is a tricky emotion. Important to feel and use as a catalyst for action at times. Important to control and calm and soothe at other times (lest things are said and done which lead to regret.) For me, anger is a tough one. I don’t get angry very often. And I shy away from anger in others. But now and again I’d like to have a scowl like Marylou’s. I would wield my scowl responsibly, but powerfully
November 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Here in war ravaged Portland, we’re being invaded by the dark. We wake up in the dark, spend the day chasing the light and then POOF, it’s dark again. At least it makes a moody backdrop for photos.

#portland #protest #NoKings #resist #photography #blooms
A photo of a large floral arrangement against darkness outside the window
November 7, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Mark your calendars!

It’s only once a year. The artist goes completely mad - tossing buckets of gesso over old paintings and obliterating a body of work. Unless! Unless collectors rescue them at outrageously good prices.

Sale begins November 17 at www.lolajovan.com

#artsale #art #sale
A promotional poster for a once-a-year art sale
November 6, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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I Was Busy Surviving
oil on paper
23 x 23

The wild god points to your side.
You are bleeding heavily.
You have been bleeding for a long time,
Possibly since you were born.
There is a bear in the wound. - TOM HIRONS

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#art #painting
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An oil painting of a woman and a sinister man, inspired by a poem The excerpt from the poem Sometimes A Wild God continues: ‘Why did you leave me to die?’ Asks the wild god and you say: ‘I was busy surviving. The shops were all closed; I didn’t know how. I’m sorry.’ “ One of a series of paintings inspired by Hiron’s poem. His writing reaches into my gut, drags me into the wilderness and makes me stare down bears and wildcats. Um, yep, that’s some damn good poetry.
November 6, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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A little reward for an early walk over the bridge…this little guy fishing right in the heart of the city’s waterway. Hello traveller! You are very welcome here. ☺️

#marinelife #sealion #Portland #riverlife #morningwalks
November 6, 2025 at 2:12 AM