MEET THE ARTIST

Sharmaine Rayner

Multi-Disciplinary Artist • Mindset Coach • Spiritual Aestheticist • Interior Alchemist

Born in Toronto and raised in Los Angeles, Sharmaine Rayner is a boundary-defying visual artist, coach, and creative catalyst whose work merges fine art, spiritual depth, and the transformative power of color, symbol, and story. Her practice is as eclectic as it is intentional — rooted in a lifelong love of beauty, meaning, and the spaces where art and soul intersect.

A Lifelong Creative with a Performer's Heart

Long before she ever picked up a brush, Sharmaine trained and performed as a dancer, singer, model, and actress — developing an early sensitivity to rhythm, gesture, and the emotional language of visual storytelling. This background in the performing arts continues to infuse her visual work with a sense of movement, theatricality, and bold presence that stops you in your tracks.

The Creative Path

In 2015, Sharmaine answered a calling she could no longer ignore and returned fully to the creative path — teaching herself to draw and paint with fearless curiosity. What began as a personal journey quickly blossomed into a rich, evolving practice spanning acrylic, gouache, oil, resin, ink, mixed media, digital collage, and photography. Each medium is chosen intuitively, shaped by the energetic needs of the piece rather than convention.

Her work draws from a vast well of inspiration — aerial landscapes, folk art traditions, Moroccan geometry, fashion portraiture, nature, mythology, and the quiet symbolism of everyday life. No two pieces are alike, and that is entirely by design.

Born Mystics — Where Creativity Takes Another Form

Sharmaine's creative expression extends beyond the canvas into the wearable and the handcrafted. She is the founder of Born Mystics — a collection of handmade jewelry and crafts that carry the same spiritual intention and aesthetic soul as her fine art. Each piece is made with the same care, symbolism, and energy that defines everything she creates. Explore Born Mystics directly from this website and discover another dimension of her creative world.

Art as Transformation — Coaching Through Creativity

Sharmaine's approach to art goes far beyond the canvas. As a mindset coach and certified art therapy practitioner (Level I), she uses the creative process as a powerful vehicle for personal breakthroughs, self-discovery, and lasting transformation. Her coaching is informed by decades of immersion in the world's most respected transformational frameworks — including Landmark Education, Tony Robbins' methodologies, Kabbalah, Yoga, and diverse mystical traditions from around the world.

She has lived the work. The result is a coaching and teaching style that is deeply empathetic, spiritually grounded, and powerfully effective — meeting each person exactly where they are and guiding them toward their own creative and personal breakthroughs.

Art as Energy, Healing, and Spiritual Expression

A lifelong spiritual seeker, Sharmaine believes deeply in the transformative and medicinal power of art. Her work is imbued with intention — designed to shift energy, uplift spirit, and spark meaningful reflection. The symbolism woven throughout her paintings draws from Kabbalah, sacred geometry, world mythology, and mystical traditions — creating pieces that resonate on both a visual and energetic level.

Interior Artistry & Design

In recent years, Sharmaine has expanded her practice to include furniture repurposing and interior aesthetics, bringing her vibrant visual language into physical spaces. Whether reimagining vintage pieces or curating entire visual environments, her work transforms interiors into soulful, sensory experiences — opening exciting collaborations with collectors, boutique hospitality spaces, and private clients seeking meaningfully integrated design.

Sharing the Flame

Sharmaine began teaching art in 2017 — for private parties, UCLA special events, and Sip N Paint classes — and has since expanded into private online Zoom intensives and one-on-one mindset coaching sessions using art as the gateway. Her classes and coaching are deeply personal, tailored to each student's vision and pace, and grounded in the belief that creativity is not a talent you either have or don't — it's a language anyone can learn to speak, and a doorway to becoming who you were always meant to be.

Whether you're drawn to her originals, her miniature ACEO collectibles, her prints, her teaching, her coaching, or the handcrafted world of Born Mystics — you are warmly invited into her world. Every piece carries a piece of the journey.