MEET THE ARTIST

Sharmaine Rayner  
Professional Muse • Sensory Artist • Experience Designer  
Original Art • The Uncommon Conversation • Founder of Born Mystics

Born in Toronto and raised in Los Angeles, Sharmaine Rayner works across painting, objects, conversation, and designed experience. She has built businesses, owned a restaurant, worked in finance and technology, and spent her life in the arts. The industries changed. The through-line did not: help people see what they could not see from inside their own loop.

Her work merges fine art, symbolism, and the kind of conversation that actually changes what happens next. Color, story, and form are the tools. Curiosity is the method.

Before the Canvas  
Long before she picked up a brush, Sharmaine trained as a dancer, singer, model, and actress. That early work built a feel for rhythm, gesture, and how a body or an image holds emotion. It still shows up in the paintings — movement, presence, and work that does not sit quietly on a wall.

The Creative Path  
In 2015 she came back to making full time and taught herself to draw and paint. The practice now spans acrylic, gouache, oil, resin, ink, mixed media, digital collage, and photography. The medium follows the piece.

Sources run wide: aerial landscapes, folk traditions, Moroccan geometry, fashion portraiture, nature, mythology, and the quiet symbols in ordinary life. No two pieces are alike. That is the point.

The Cosmic Blue Collection came from dream transmissions and later shadow work — paintings that knew something before she had language for it. Originals and the story of that body of work live on this site.

Born Mystics  
The same hand and the same intention move off the canvas into jewelry, objects, and crafts. Born Mystics is her lifestyle house — handmade work grounded in symbolism and how you actually live. Explore it from this site or at bornmystics.com.

Conversation, Models, and Signal  
A large part of the work now happens in long conversation — with people, and with AI models.

Most systems are built to satisfy the user. Satisfying someone and understanding them are not the same thing. Sharmaine works in that gap: high-resolution conversation that catches where a model invents a premise the human never gave, flattens a whole person into one label, or judges an answer with a framework nobody asked for. That is how you get a better model. It is also how you get a better conversation between humans.

The Uncommon Conversation and private residencies grew from the same practice. So did the paintings. The art is not separate from the dialogue. It is what the dialogue becomes when it needs a form.

Art, Coaching, and Study  
As a mindset coach and certified art therapy practitioner (Level I), she uses making as the way through — not as decoration after the fact. The work is informed by years inside serious transformational study: Landmark Education, Tony Robbins’ methods, Kabbalah, yoga, and mystical traditions she has actually practiced, not quoted.

She has lived it. The coaching is direct, grounded, and built to meet someone where they are and move.

Art as Energy and Symbol  
She treats art as something that can change a room and a nervous system. Intention is part of the making. The symbolism in the work draws from Kabbalah, sacred geometry, world mythology, and lived spiritual study — so a piece can land visually and still keep working after you stop looking at it.

Interiors  
The practice also includes furniture and interior aesthetics — vintage pieces reworked, rooms built as sensory environments. Collectors, boutique hospitality, and private clients use this when they want a space that feels like a whole thought, not a pile of objects.

Teaching  
Sharmaine began teaching art in 2017 — private parties, UCLA special events, and Sip N Paint — and now also works in private Zoom intensives and one-on-one sessions where art is the way in. Classes follow the student. Creativity is treated as a language you can learn, not a talent you were assigned at birth.

Originals, prints, commissions, Born Mystics, The Uncommon Conversation, and private residencies are all the same practice in different forms. If you want the work, start with the collection that pulled you in. If you want the conversation, go there next.